{"id":4004,"date":"2024-02-01T23:24:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T23:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4004"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:27","slug":"the-best-you-can-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4004","title":{"rendered":"THE BEST YOU CAN DO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some questions can be quite intimidating.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This anecdote related in a biography of Henry Kissinger by Walter Isaacson hits right between the eyes:<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kissinger once asked his special assistant, Winston Lord, to write a report. After days of effort, Lord submitted his work only to receive it back with this note: \u201cIs this the best you can do?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lord immediately got back to work on the report, revising it from start to finish, but upon receiving the thing, Kissinger wrote again, \u201cIs this the best you can do?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lord made another effort to perfect the report, but once again it was returned to him with the same question: \u201cIs this the best you can do?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At this Lord exploded. He confronted Kissinger angrily, cursing and proclaiming, \u201cYES, it\u2019s the best I can do!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kissinger took the report and said, \u201cFine, then I guess I\u2019ll read it this time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.<\/i>\u00a0 &#8211; Col 3:23-24<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some questions can be quite intimidating. This anecdote related in a biography of Henry Kissinger by Walter Isaacson hits right between the eyes: Kissinger once asked his special assistant, Winston Lord, to write a report. After days of effort, Lord submitted his work only to receive it back with this note: \u201cIs this the best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4005,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4004\/revisions\/4005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}