{"id":20,"date":"2021-03-13T16:01:22","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T16:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenmcknight.com\/newtestsite22\/blog-post-title\/"},"modified":"2021-03-17T16:59:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T16:59:09","slug":"blog-post-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.darrenmcknight.com\/newtestsite22\/blog-post-title\/","title":{"rendered":"twothingsilearnedtoday.com"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/twothingsilearnedtoday.com\/\">Visit twothingsIlearnedtoday.com<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>After I completed my MBA in 2011 I was proud of the accomplishment but I needed a fun project to fill a void. I found one in working on a blog:\u00a0two things i learned today<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The concept ws simple. I wanted ingrain the idea of learning into my daily routine. I planned to &#8216;learn&#8217; two things a day, every day, until I made a habit out of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/ejsp.674\/abstract\">Lally et al.\u00a0(2009)<\/a>, suggests\u00a0on average a habit forms in about 66 days. Admittedly the range varies wildly based on the person and the complexity &#8211; there is a superb explanation of habit forming and the research\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spring.org.uk\/2009\/09\/how-long-to-form-a-habit.php\">here<\/a>. A clean and memorable number works for me so I went with it.\u00a0I blogged my way through the habit-forming process with a simple daily post of what I have learned for the first 66 straight days. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why\u00a0<strong><em>two<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0things? Three seemed like the natural number but somebody already owned that domain. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What <em><strong>two <\/strong><\/em>things? My goal was to keep it broad and to keep it light. No target subject in mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What will\u00a0<strong><em>you<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0learn? Over a series of posts I hope you&#8217;ll get to know me, and what makes me tick. \u00a0And hopefully that will be interesting enough to make you think, or at least have a laugh at my expense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>TwoThingsILearnedToday &#8211; 66 days from January 1, 2012 &#8211; March 6, 2012 and VERY sporadically after that.<\/strong><br><em><sub>Disclaimer: This site and my blog posts are personal ventures and are in no way affiliated with any current or former employer.<\/sub><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After I completed my MBA in 2011 I was proud of the accomplishment but I needed a fun project to<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darrenmcknight.com\/newtestsite22\/blog-post-title\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">twothingsilearnedtoday.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darrenmcknight.com\/newtestsite22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darrenmcknight.com\/newtestsite22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darrenmcknight.com\/newtestsite22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darrenmcknight.com\/newtestsite22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darrenmcknight.com\/newtestsite22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.darrenmcknight.com\/newtestsite22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"http:\/\/www.darrenmcknight.com\/newtestsite22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darrenmcknight.com\/newtestsite22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darrenmcknight.com\/newtestsite22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darrenmcknight.com\/newtestsite22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}