{"id":7040,"date":"2024-01-09T04:11:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T04:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7040"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:44","slug":"typical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7040","title":{"rendered":"TYPICAL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This past week I put my finger on a personal mindset I seem to have held since a young age &#8211; one which has served me well: &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to be a typical <i>anything<\/i>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was as close as my fragile self-esteem could get me to &#8220;I&#8217;m going to be #1!&#8221; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My goal is to beat the average. I aim for the top 5%, I suppose.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In practice, it means on some deep level, I refuse to settle for being&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>A typical man<\/li>\n\n\n<li>A typical husband<\/li>\n\n\n<li>A typical father<\/li>\n\n\n<li>A typical teacher<\/li>\n\n\n<li>A typical preacher<\/li>\n\n\n<li>A typical Christian<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Did you notice anything as you were reading the word &#8220;typical&#8221; throughout that list?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What does it say about human nature &#8211; and our approach to life &#8211; that the word &#8220;typical&#8221; has overwhelmingly negative connotations?!<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It makes me sad to say, but it doesn&#8217;t really take much effort to be atypical in this world.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past week I put my finger on a personal mindset I seem to have held since a young age &#8211; one which has served me well: &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to be a typical anything.&#8221; This was as close as my fragile self-esteem could get me to &#8220;I&#8217;m going to be #1!&#8221; \ud83d\ude09 My goal [&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-7040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7040","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=7040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7041,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7040\/revisions\/7041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}