{"id":1298,"date":"2013-01-10T01:58:39","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T06:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1298"},"modified":"2013-01-04T13:07:09","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T18:07:09","slug":"the-healthy-skeptic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2013\/01\/the-healthy-skeptic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Healthy Skeptic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t believe things at first. Be skeptical, but maintain your health.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t blogged on this topic before, and that is sort of surprise. \u00a0I used to have a job where I told people that being a healthy skeptic was one of the better things you could be. In that job, people told me what was happening. I needed to be skeptical in that I needed for people to demonstrate to me that what they said was true.<\/p>\n<p>For example,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>demonstrate that everyone was at work<\/li>\n<li>demonstrate that the goods had arrived<\/li>\n<li>demonstrate that the software worked<\/li>\n<li>demonstrate that the hardware worked<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I trusted the people personally. It was, however, my job to represent the taxpayers on projects. Verifying was important.<\/p>\n<p>Another part of this was to be healthy. It is easy to \u00a0become distrustful of people. That isn&#8217;t good for me and wouldn&#8217;t be good for the people around me. How would you feel if the people around you didn&#8217;t trust you? If they constantly questioned your word?<\/p>\n<p>Be healthy. Tell people, &#8220;I trust you, but as part of my job I have to see proof of what you say. Please show me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I expect to blog about other aspects of this topic in the coming weeks. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Don&#8217;t believe things at first. Be skeptical, but maintain your health. I haven&#8217;t blogged on this topic before, and that is sort of surprise. \u00a0I used to have a job where I told people that being a healthy skeptic was one of the better things you could be. In that job, people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[155],"class_list":["post-1298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1299,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions\/1299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}