{"id":1288,"date":"2023-05-20T15:45:38","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T14:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2023-05-20T15:45:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T14:45:38","slug":"no-free-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/2023\/05\/20\/no-free-lunch\/","title":{"rendered":"No free lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just a reminder<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">\u201cEvery single pursuit \u2013 no matter how wonderful and exciting and glamorous it may initially seem \u2013 comes with its own brand of shit sandwich, its own lousy side effects. Everything sucks some of the time. You just have to decide what sort of suckage you\u2019re willing to deal with.\n\u200b\nSo the question is not so much \u2018What are you passionate about?\u2019\n\u200b\nThe question is \u2018What are you passionate enough about that you can endure the most disagreeable aspects of the work?\u2019\n\u200b\nBecause if you love something and want something enough \u2013 whatever it is \u2013 then you don\u2019t really mind eating the shit sandwich that comes with it.\u201d\n\u200b\n- Mark Manson<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre id=\"block-a36d98fe-63dd-40bb-a9c5-37e9bdaedc51\" class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">In a world of comfort one question the most important question to ask yourself is what are you willing to struggle for? You can have the pain of being lazy or the pain of putting an effort into your health and body? Which one will it be?<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a reminder \u201cEvery single pursuit \u2013 no matter how wonderful and exciting and glamorous it may initially seem \u2013 comes with its own brand of shit sandwich, its own lousy side effects. Everything sucks some of the time. You just have to decide what sort of suckage you\u2019re willing to deal with. \u200b So &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/2023\/05\/20\/no-free-lunch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;No free lunch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1289,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions\/1289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}