<p><img decoding="async" class="alignleft" alt="Robert Ringer - speaker &#038; author" title="Robert Ringer - speaker and author" src="http://getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/robert-ringer.jpg" />Your cerebral computer, commonly referred to as the brain, contains a biological chip I like to think of as your Weight and Balance Happiness Scale. This remarkable scale automatically weighs every known alternative available to you at any given time and chooses the one it believes will result in the greatest amount of happiness for you. </p>
<p>The only problem with your Weight and Balance Happiness Scale is that it sometimes malfunctions, meaning that it doesn&#8217;t always process the facts correctly. And when that happens, the decisions you make are usually not in your long-term best interest.  <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2013/10/is-winning-at-everything-really-that-important/" title="Permanent Link: Is winning at everything really that important?" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":1979,"date":"2013-10-12T07:21:23","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T12:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=1979"},"modified":"2013-10-12T07:21:23","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T12:21:23","slug":"is-winning-at-everything-really-that-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2013\/10\/is-winning-at-everything-really-that-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Is winning at everything really that important?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Robert Ringer - speaker &#038; author\" title=\"Robert Ringer - speaker and author\" src=\"http:\/\/getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/robert-ringer.jpg\" \/>Your cerebral computer, commonly referred to as the brain, contains a biological chip I like to think of as your Weight and Balance Happiness Scale. This remarkable scale automatically weighs every known alternative available to you at any given time and chooses the one it believes will result in the greatest amount of happiness for you. <\/p>\n<p>The only problem with your Weight and Balance Happiness Scale is that it sometimes malfunctions, meaning that it doesn&#8217;t always process the facts correctly. And when that happens, the decisions you make are usually not in your long-term best interest.  <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2013\/10\/is-winning-at-everything-really-that-important\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Is winning at everything really that important?\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}