{"id":4495,"date":"2010-06-13T10:42:56","date_gmt":"2010-06-13T08:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=4495"},"modified":"2010-06-13T17:19:54","modified_gmt":"2010-06-13T15:19:54","slug":"ignore-everybody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2010\/06\/ignore-everybody\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignore everybody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great tips from <a href=\"http:\/\/gapingvoid.com\/books\/\">Hugh MacLeod<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n1. Ignore everybody.<br \/>\n2. The idea doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to be big. It just has to be yours.<br \/>\n3. Put the hours in.<!--more--><br \/>\n4. If your biz plan depends on you suddenly being \u00e2\u20ac\u0153discovered\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by some big shot, your plan will probably fail.<br \/>\n5. You are responsible for your own experience.<br \/>\n6. Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten.<br \/>\n7. Keep your day job.<br \/>\n8. Companies that squelch creativity can no longer compete with companies that champion creativity.<br \/>\n9. Everybody has their own private Mount Everest they were put on this earth to climb.<br \/>\n10. The more talented somebody is, the less they need the props.<br \/>\n11. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t try to stand out from the crowd; avoid crowds altogether.<br \/>\n12. If you accept the pain, it cannot hurt you. [&#8230;]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>all from the new book. This applies also to a science career &#8211; although you will probably make only science but not a career.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 09.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great tips from Hugh MacLeod 1. Ignore everybody. 2. The idea doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to be big. It just has to be yours. 3. Put the hours in. &nbsp; CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 09.04.2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[2572],"class_list":["post-4495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joke-fun","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-career"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4495"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4503,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495\/revisions\/4503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}