{"id":854,"date":"2020-12-28T22:53:45","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T06:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/?p=854"},"modified":"2020-12-28T22:53:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T06:53:45","slug":"encourage-someone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/28\/encourage-someone\/","title":{"rendered":"Encourage someone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I still remember verbatim a comment from my tutor in my first college philosophy course: \u201cI would encourage you to explore what I suspect might be a talent for philosophy.\u201d It was followed by a disappointing \u201cB+\u201d. Never mind. I held on to that little bit of encouragement and ended up majoring in philosophy, getting a Masters with distinction, and a scholarship to do a Ph.D. in philosophy, where I met other people who thought I had a talent for philosophy. It all started with just a little bit of encouragement. I still remember the first and last name of that tutor and I am pretty sure that if you told him my first and last name right now, he would say, \u201cWho?\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/seths.blog\/\">Seth Godin<\/a>, a man whom I have never met, writes a popular daily blog and encourages everyone else to do so too. He wrote that in one of his blog posts. I ended up taking him up on that this year. He just put it out there, encouraging everyone on planet Earth to do it, and I thought, \u201cYeah, that does sound like an interesting idea. I\u2019ll do it.\u201d Thanks for the encouragement, Seth.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A little encouragement goes a long way.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Encourage someone who might need courage. Who can you encourage?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What will they do? And what will what they do do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had always thought of the domino effect as a chain of linear cause and effect events. And I think that is what it means. But when I saw this gif below, it occurred to me that there is another type of domino effect, the domino snowball effect, the exponential domino effect.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now you have even more reason to tip over some of those first small dominoes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Think of what it could lead to.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe src='https:\/\/gfycat.com\/ifr\/ColossalSecondaryIndochinesetiger' frameborder='0' scrolling='no' allowfullscreen width='640' height='684'&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;a href=\"https:\/\/gfycat.com\/colossalsecondaryindochinesetiger\"&gt;via Gfycat&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I still remember verbatim a comment from my tutor in my first college philosophy course: \u201cI would encourage you to explore what I suspect might be a talent for philosophy.\u201d It was followed by a disappointing \u201cB+\u201d. Never mind. I held on to that little bit of encouragement and ended up majoring in philosophy, getting &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/28\/encourage-someone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Encourage someone&#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-854","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\/854","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=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":858,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions\/858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}