{"id":96,"date":"2022-06-06T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anneklitsch.com\/?p=96"},"modified":"2022-07-06T11:04:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T10:04:20","slug":"be-the-best-version-of-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anneklitsch.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/06\/be-the-best-version-of-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Be the best version of yourself!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have a personal note I want to share. While growing up and going through my studies I heard many people say that \u201cOne day (\u2026when you are grown up\/finished with your studies\/etc\u2026.) you will be like {<em>insert famous name here<\/em>}\u201d Where famous name is often some female physicist (one example was Angela Merkel, former German federal chancellor,\u00a0 who has a PhD in physics). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, I was listening to an audiobook on my commute and I heard something that really resonated with me:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cBe the best version of yourself!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While I think role models are very powerful one should not make the mistake and try to exactly copy other people. This is not a way to success. One should rather work hard everyday to be the best version of oneself given ones own values, ambitions, believes, abilities, capabilities, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In case you are interested: The book is \u2018How to stop worrying &amp; start living\u2019 by Dale Carnegie. While I do not agree with everything in the book I still think it is a good read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a personal note I want to share. While growing up and going through my studies I heard many people say that \u201cOne day (\u2026when you are grown up\/finished with your studies\/etc\u2026.) you will be like {insert famous name here}\u201d Where famous name is often some female physicist (one example was Angela Merkel, former &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anneklitsch.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/06\/be-the-best-version-of-yourself\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Be the best version of yourself!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anneklitsch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anneklitsch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anneklitsch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anneklitsch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anneklitsch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.anneklitsch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"https:\/\/www.anneklitsch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anneklitsch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anneklitsch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anneklitsch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}