{"id":1800,"date":"2014-11-03T01:06:15","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T06:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2014-10-06T08:12:59","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T13:12:59","slug":"hyperventilation-hysteria-and-commitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2014\/11\/hyperventilation-hysteria-and-commitment\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyperventilation, Hysteria, and Commitment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hyperventilation and hysteria are shows of emotion, not commitment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A recent <a href=\"http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2014\/10\/but-why-arent-you-hysterical.html\">post from Seth Godin<\/a> reminded me of the above. I have been the victim of the &#8220;why aren&#8217;t you going berserk?&#8221; syndrome over the years. I was once reprimanded for concentrating on performing the work instead of yelling and screaming at the walls.<\/p>\n<p>Let me state this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have never seen electrons in a circuit change direction as a result of screaming.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Believe me, if I had seen evidence that screaming would change how a circuit behaves or how electrons on a disk drive arrange themselves, I would scream a lot and often. Since I have never seen such evidence, I <em>just<\/em> concentrate on the task at hand and attempt to accomplish the work.<\/p>\n<p>That concentrate-on-the-work habit bothers some people to a great extent. Perhaps, one day, I will understand that response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Hyperventilation and hysteria are shows of emotion, not commitment. A recent post from Seth Godin reminded me of the above. I have been the victim of the &#8220;why aren&#8217;t you going berserk?&#8221; syndrome over the years. I was once reprimanded for concentrating on performing the work instead of yelling and screaming at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,32,45,48,108],"tags":[173,154,167,170,222],"class_list":["post-1800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-choose","category-communication","category-differences","category-general-systems-thinking","category-reaction","tag-choose","tag-communication","tag-differences","tag-general-systems-thinking","tag-reaction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800","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=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1801,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions\/1801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}