{"id":223,"date":"2004-12-23T18:07:59","date_gmt":"2004-12-23T18:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/23\/life-lessons\/"},"modified":"2004-12-23T18:07:59","modified_gmt":"2004-12-23T18:07:59","slug":"life-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/2004\/12\/life-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seth Godin&nbsp;recently began a series of posts on <a class=\"offsite-link-inline\" href=\"http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2004\/12\/the_top_1000_th.html\" target=\"new\">1,000 things<\/a> every school student ought to know before he graduates.&nbsp;&nbsp;Here are some of my favourites :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>How to type.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>How to speak in front of a group.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>How to write clear prose that other people actually want to read.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>How to manage a project.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>The most important lessons from history.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>What the world&#8217;s religions have in common.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>The 15,000 most common English words.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>How to handle big changes, with grace.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Not arithmetic, but algebra.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>The most important lessons from ten other world cultures and their history.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Speed reading with comprehension.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>How to sell.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You may not agree with all the items on Godin&#8217;s list, or even with the order in which they are listed, but you have to admit this is food for thought.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I only wish schools are paying attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seth Godin recently began a series of posts on 1,000 things every school student ought to know before he graduates.  Here are some of my favourites&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-life"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}