{"id":1073,"date":"2016-04-21T09:35:30","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T13:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tiffanyt\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2016-04-21T09:35:30","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T13:35:30","slug":"thicker-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tiffanyt\/2016\/04\/21\/thicker-skin\/","title":{"rendered":"Thicker Skin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the reasons for my new project, of creating <a href=\"http:\/\/internationaldevelopmentcareer.com\" target=\"_blank\">an online video course sharing my experience in starting a career in international development<\/a>, is that I want to grow thicker skin. I want to be able to take criticism (well-intentioned or otherwise) with grace. What better place to learn than on the internet? I also chose to host it on a teaching platform instead of youtube because the commenters on youtube are generally not very constructive.<\/p>\n<p>This reminds me of when I started to train myself to do public speaking, back in high school. I was terrified. I naturally try to avoid the spotlight; I think much better on paper than in speech. Yet, I knew I had to learn in order to represent my ideas well. So for years I pushed and pushed and pushed, envious\u00a0of those who had natural public speaking charisma. At one point, I became much better.<\/p>\n<p>Now is time for training for a different type of public speaking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the reasons for my new project, of creating an online video course sharing my experience in starting a career in international development, is that I want to grow thicker skin. I want to be able to take criticism (well-intentioned or otherwise) with grace. What better place to learn than on the internet? I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21767,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tiffanyt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tiffanyt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tiffanyt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tiffanyt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21767"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tiffanyt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tiffanyt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1074,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tiffanyt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions\/1074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tiffanyt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tiffanyt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tiffanyt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}