{"id":939,"date":"2021-09-14T14:22:57","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T04:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-wa\/?post_type=article&#038;p=939"},"modified":"2021-09-14T14:23:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T04:23:06","slug":"thought-leadership","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-wa\/article\/thought-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Thought Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"post-content\">\n<h2>To overcome challenges, stop comparing yourself to others<\/h2>\n<p>by Dean Furness<\/p>\n<p>When you stop comparing yourself to others, you can accomplish great things, says wheelchair athlete Dean Furness. He shares how, after losing the use of his legs in an accident, he discovered a powerful new mindset focused on redefining his \u201cpersonal average\u201d and getting better little by little.<\/p>\n<div class=\" Grid__cell d:f h:full m-b:.5 m-b:0@md w:12 \">It seems we have been measured almost all of our lives,\u00a0when we are infants, with our height and our weight,\u00a0and as we grew it became our speed and our strength.\u00a0And even in school there are test scores\u00a0and today with our salaries and job performance.\u00a0It seems as if those personal averages are almost always used\u00a0to measure where we are in comparison to our peers.\u00a0And I think we should look at that a little differently.\u00a0That personal average is just that, it\u2019s something very personal\u00a0and it\u2019s for you,\u00a0and I think if you focus on that and work to build that,\u00a0you can really start to accomplish some really amazing things.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/dean_furness_to_overcome_challenges_stop_comparing_yourself_to_others\/transcript?utm_source=linkedin.com&amp;utm_content=2021-7-16&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=social\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-935 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2021\/09\/dean.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1124\" height=\"623\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/dean_furness_to_overcome_challenges_stop_comparing_yourself_to_others?utm_source=linkedin.com&amp;utm_content=2021-7-16&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=social\">Watch now<\/a><\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To overcome challenges, stop comparing yourself to others by Dean Furness When you stop comparing yourself to others, you can accomplish great things, says wheelchair athlete Dean Furness. He shares how, after losing the use of his legs in an accident, he discovered a powerful new mindset focused on redefining his \u201cpersonal average\u201d and getting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":940,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","class_list":["post-939","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/educateplus-wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}