{"id":120,"date":"2013-11-08T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T08:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bookofthought.com\/?p=120"},"modified":"2013-11-09T19:18:54","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T19:18:54","slug":"weakness-is-a-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bookofthought.com\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"Weakness is\/ can be a strength!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Showing a weakness in our society is considered taboo or a definite negative.<\/p>\n<p>You have physical issues, mental issues or even aging and it is considered a weakness!<\/p>\n<p>Your kids have problems (Or you are the kid) and you experience stress or depression and it is considered a weakness.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is you are then afraid or embarrassed to talk about it.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the more you talk about things, the better off you are, so talking about your perceived weaknesses can make you stronger. So talking about your perceived weaknesses can be a strength not a weakness.<\/p>\n<p>It can be hard just to find someone to talk to about this, as they often change the topic the moment you bring up these \u201cuncomfortable weaknesses\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just be careful that you learn from it,\u00a0because too much of the same thing over and over again can be overwhelming. Talking about the same &#8220;weakness&#8221; 20 times to the same person is not going to make your popular or welcome, unless you are working to understand it, then it becomes a maybe&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Stik<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Showing a weakness in our society is considered taboo or a definite negative. You have physical issues, mental issues or even aging and it is considered a weakness! Your kids have problems (Or you are the kid) and you experience &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookofthought.com\/?p=120\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookofthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookofthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookofthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookofthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookofthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookofthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookofthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookofthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookofthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookofthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}