{"id":1108,"date":"2013-10-13T12:11:08","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T08:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/?p=1108"},"modified":"2013-09-13T12:14:24","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T08:14:24","slug":"the-law-of-the-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/2013\/10\/13\/the-law-of-the-seed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Law of the Seed"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start --><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;\">Take a look at an apple tree. There might be five hundred apples on the tree, each with ten seeds. That&#8217;s a lot of seeds!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;\"><br \/>\nWe might ask, &#8220;Why would you need so many seeds to grow just a few more trees?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nature has something to teach us here. It&#8217;s telling us:\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">&#8220;Most seeds never grow. So if you really want to make something happen, you better try more than once.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;\"><span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">This might mean:<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;\">You&#8217;ll attend twenty interviews to get one job.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll interview forty people to find one good employee.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll talk to fifty people to sell one house, car, vacuum cleaner, idea&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And you might meet a hundred acquaintances to find one special friend.<\/p>\n<p>When we understand the &#8220;Law of the Seed&#8221;, we don&#8217;t get so disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>We stop feeling like victims. Laws of nature are not things to take personally.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a look at an apple tree. There might be five hundred apples on the tree, each with ten seeds. That&#8217;s a lot of seeds! We might ask, &#8220;Why would you need so many seeds to grow just a few more trees?&#8221; Nature has something to teach us here. It&#8217;s telling us:\u00a0&#8220;Most seeds never grow. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[80,73,92],"class_list":["post-1108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting","tag-attitude","tag-competition","tag-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1110,"href":"https:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions\/1110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hikmah.ekhwan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}