{"id":1004,"date":"2012-10-20T22:47:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-20T22:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/?page_id=1004"},"modified":"2022-04-07T10:32:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T10:32:00","slug":"my-faults","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/?page_id=1004","title":{"rendered":"My Faults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1. Lack of self-confidence<\/strong>. This held me back from doing all sorts of things I could have achieved. For example, I gave up on higher education after getting a third at Birmingham. Other fellow students went on to do post-graduate degrees despite also have got thirds. I should have published my MA thesis (Goethe&#8217;s Influence on Freud) and <em>Tough on the Causes of Terrorism<\/em>, but let the first drift, and lost my nerve with the second.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Over-eagerness to please<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Obsessional behaviour<\/strong>. If I&#8217;ve set my mind on doing something, I will often persist in trying to achieve it, even when it has become clear either that I won&#8217;t succeed, or that even if I did, it would have little benefit. For example, I developed a database of all Saudia staff in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia when I was in charge of the English Language Training there. There were clear indications that this would not be used after I left my post, and yet I devoted much of my own free time to completing the task.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Lack of self-confidence. This held me back from doing all sorts of things I could have achieved. For example, I gave up on higher education after getting a third at Birmingham. Other fellow students went on to do post-graduate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/?page_id=1004\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":574,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1004","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1734,"href":"https:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1004\/revisions\/1734"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.francisclark-lowes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}