{"id":387,"date":"2010-08-11T05:55:10","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T10:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/blog\/?p=387"},"modified":"2010-08-11T05:55:10","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T10:55:10","slug":"courage-or-conformity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=387","title":{"rendered":"Courage or Conformity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quote from Earl Nightingale;<\/p>\n<p>We all admire the courageous person.  We sometimes consider the person who lacks courage a coward&#8230;.or the more common term; &#8220;average&#8221; or &#8220;normal&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It takes courage for a teenager to truly stand out from their peers when the other kids are heading down the wrong path.  It takes courage to stand up for the person being unjustly criticized as opposed to agreeing with the crowd.  It takes courage to stand for something and die for your country. It takes courage to be different and start your own business vs just sell your time and dreams for a job. <\/p>\n<p>Earl Nightingale said; &#8220;<em>The opposite of courage is conformity&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s so easy to go along with the larger group.  We don&#8217;t have to stand out, stand up, stand for something or be &#8220;different&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>And the rest of his quote&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<em>..and there is little compensation in conformity<\/em>&#8220;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quote from Earl Nightingale; We all admire the courageous person. We sometimes consider the person who lacks courage a coward&#8230;.or the more common term; &#8220;average&#8221; or &#8220;normal&#8221;. It takes courage for a teenager to truly stand out from their peers &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=387\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[40,29,33,34,32,78,77,37,35,27,60,43,38,30,42,41,28,36,31],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-coaching","category-personal-development","tag-anti-aging","tag-author","tag-awakenings","tag-awareness","tag-business-coach","tag-conformity","tag-courage","tag-createyourfate","tag-discover","tag-dr-bill-toth","tag-earl-nightingale","tag-entrepreneur","tag-faithfamilyfocus","tag-father","tag-leadership-development","tag-lifestyle","tag-morning-moments","tag-neurolinguistics","tag-speaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions\/388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}