{"id":542,"date":"2012-01-18T10:20:24","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T17:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/fun\/?p=542"},"modified":"2025-01-27T23:07:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T06:07:38","slug":"how-to-win-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/fun\/how-to-win-anything\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Win &#8211; Anything"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_748\" style=\"width: 379px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Success-ByJoshua-earle-117661-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-748\" class=\" wp-image-748\" src=\"http:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Success-ByJoshua-earle-117661-unsplash-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Success by Joshua Earle\" width=\"369\" height=\"369\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-748\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Success by Joshua Earle<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Talent<\/strong> will not;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more-->&#8220;<strong>Genius<\/strong> will not;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Education<\/strong> will not;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the <strong>world is full of educated derelicts.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;<em><strong>Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.<\/strong><\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That idea comes to us courtesy of former US President Calvin Coolidge.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s my own improvement &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;Persistence is the most powerful tool known to womankind&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>-David Dilworth, 1979<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Go get em.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. &#8220;Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thinking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":833,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions\/833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}