{"id":50079,"date":"2014-03-31T11:21:12","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T09:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=50079"},"modified":"2014-03-31T11:21:12","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T09:21:12","slug":"alexis-ohanian-sucking-is-the-first-step-to-being-good-at-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecuriousbrain.com\/?p=50079","title":{"rendered":"Alexis Ohanian: Sucking is the First Step to Being Good at Something"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/90244076\" width=\"922\" height=\"519\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Alexis Ohanian: Sucking is the First Step to Being Good at Something\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nAlexis Ohanian has founded reddit, Breadpig, and hipmunk but he&#8217;ll be the first one to tell you: &#8220;I still don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m doing.&#8221;<br \/>\nWhen creating our next great work, we can be held up by failure, or by worrying what the world will think, but Ohanian urges us to remember that it&#8217;s hard enough to get people to care about your success. 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