{"id":40377,"date":"2014-02-27T12:42:50","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T17:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/?p=40377"},"modified":"2014-02-27T12:42:51","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T17:42:51","slug":"video-embrace-your-inner-child-5-making-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2014\/02\/27\/video-embrace-your-inner-child-5-making-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Embrace Your Inner-Child: 5 Making Mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"grabDiv1767162\"><script language=\"javascript\" type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/js\/Player.js?id=1767162&#038;content=v4f813fa463794a674068c08e9e93104cb1cc2f31&#038;width=542&#038;height=304&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"overlay-adzone\" style=\"overflow:hidden; position:relative\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>When a child runs, tries to ride a bike or throws a ball &#8212; and fails &#8212; they get up and do it again. It may be out of frustration or determination, but they don&#8217;t stop at the sign of failure &#8212; and neither should we. The recent story of Brian Acton, founder of WhatsApp, is a fantastic example of this. In 2009, Brian applied for a job at Facebook and was turned down. On February 19, 2014, Facebook bought Brian&#8217;s company for a staggering $19 billion. Had Brian allowed his previous setback to discourage him or cause him to change direction in life, this may not have happened. He used his &#8220;failure&#8221; as fuel to create an infinitely bigger success &#8212; a lesson we can all learn from.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/images.grab-media.com\/askmen\/2014\/02\/27\/acaa2ad2dfb2cf018411cd6a8b1e69e87f8c1c33_thumbnail.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p><!--post_img[http:\/\/images.grab-media.com\/askmen\/2014\/02\/27\/acaa2ad2dfb2cf018411cd6a8b1e69e87f8c1c33_preview.jpg]--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a child runs, tries to ride a bike or throws a ball &#8212; and fails &#8212; they get up and do it again. It may be out of frustration or determination, but they don&#8217;t stop at the sign of failure &#8212; and neither should we. The recent story of Brian Acton, founder of WhatsApp, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2014\/02\/27\/video-embrace-your-inner-child-5-making-mistakes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;VIDEO: Embrace Your Inner-Child: 5 Making Mistakes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}