{"id":42,"date":"2018-07-19T14:13:11","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T14:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteacoach.com\/blog\/?p=42"},"modified":"2018-08-13T23:29:53","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T23:29:53","slug":"think-like-an-oak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteacoach.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/19\/think-like-an-oak\/","title":{"rendered":"Think like an oak"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span class=\"_5z6m\"><span class=\"_4a6n\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-90\" src=\"https:\/\/alteacoach.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/think_like_an_oak-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alteacoach.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/think_like_an_oak-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/alteacoach.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/think_like_an_oak-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/alteacoach.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/think_like_an_oak-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/alteacoach.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/think_like_an_oak.png 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span class=\"_5z6m\"><span class=\"_4a6n\">If you want to produce great acorns, think like an oak, not like an acorn.<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Somewhere deep inside, you know what kind of person you were designed to be. If you want to produce great acorns, think like an oak, not like an acorn. Think like the person you intend to become, like the Christian question what would Jesus do? Ask yourself how would the person I\u2019d like to be, do the things I am about to do.<\/p>\n<p>The acorn has three parts: it\u2019s got a stem, a cap, and a seed. And the stem represents its connection to the past, all the acorns and all the oaks that have ever existed in its line before are encoded in that, transferred through that stem, the legacy into this acorn. The cap holds on to the seed, until the seed is ready to grow on its own, so the cap represents your coaches, your mentors, your role models, your guides, your parents, your friends, your teachers. And when you\u2019re ready to grow on your own, the seed of that acorn holds not only your potential but the potential of every future generation of acorns that will spring from that line.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Jim Cathcart<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the rest of the speech here<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-ki9-oaPwHs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to produce great acorns, think like an oak, not like an acorn. &nbsp; &#8220;Somewhere deep inside, you know what kind of person you were designed to be. If you want to produce great acorns, think like an oak, not like an acorn. Think like the person you intend to become, like the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteacoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteacoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteacoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteacoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteacoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/alteacoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/alteacoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteacoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteacoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteacoach.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}