{"id":6403,"date":"2016-08-25T00:07:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T05:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6403"},"modified":"2016-08-23T14:11:11","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T19:11:11","slug":"humility-and-learning-are-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6403","title":{"rendered":"HUMILITY AND LEARNING ARE TWINS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From Ryan Holiday (www.ryanholiday.net):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;The nine\u00ad-time Grammy\u2013 and Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning jazz musician Wynton Marsalis <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/geni.us\/TUo2K6\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-href=\"http:\/\/geni.us\/TUo2K6\">once advised<\/a> a promising young musician on the mind\u00adset required in the lifelong study of music: &#8216;Humility engenders learning because it beats back the arrogance that puts blinders on. It leaves you open for truths to reveal themselves. You don\u2019t stand in your own way.\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0. Do you know how you can tell when someone is truly humble? I believe there\u2019s one simple test: because they consistently observe and listen, the humble improve. They don\u2019t assume, \u2018I know the way.\u2019 <span class=\"markup--quote markup--p-quote is-me\" data-creator-ids=\"3551d027ec0c\">No matter what you\u2019ve done up to this point, <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/ryanholiday.net\/how-to-read-more-a-lot-more\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-href=\"http:\/\/ryanholiday.net\/how-to-read-more-a-lot-more\/\">you better still be a student<\/a>. If you\u2019re not still learning, you\u2019re already dying.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Ryan Holiday (www.ryanholiday.net): &#8220;The nine\u00ad-time Grammy\u2013 and Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning jazz musician Wynton Marsalis once advised a promising young musician on the mind\u00adset required in the lifelong study of music: &#8216;Humility engenders learning because it beats back the arrogance that puts blinders on. It leaves you open for truths to reveal themselves. You don\u2019t stand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,37,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-character","category-learningeducation","category-quotable"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6404,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403\/revisions\/6404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}