{"id":314,"date":"2020-05-01T17:35:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T01:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/?p=314"},"modified":"2020-05-01T17:35:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T01:35:51","slug":"what-are-you-comparing-yourself-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/01\/what-are-you-comparing-yourself-to\/","title":{"rendered":"What are you comparing yourself to?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I keep track of the stocks I buy in a spreadsheet and one day I was pleased with myself because I had made a profit, until I realized that I would have made more of a profit if I had followed Warren Buffett\u2019s advice and bought an index fund instead of an individual stock.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You might be doing well. And you might not. Compared to what?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep track of the stocks I buy in a spreadsheet and one day I was pleased with myself because I had made a profit, until I realized that I would have made more of a profit if I had followed Warren Buffett\u2019s advice and bought an index fund instead of an individual stock.&nbsp; You &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/01\/what-are-you-comparing-yourself-to\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What are you comparing yourself to?&#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-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}