{"id":538,"date":"2015-08-22T07:19:55","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T14:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/?p=538"},"modified":"2015-08-22T07:19:55","modified_gmt":"2015-08-22T14:19:55","slug":"how-the-best-become-fulfilled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/22\/how-the-best-become-fulfilled\/","title":{"rendered":"How the best become fulfilled"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A creative man is fulfilled by accomplishments and a competitive man is fulfilled by beating others. I\u2019m all about accomplishments. Ride the biggest wave. It has to do with me. I can always grow and keep accomplishing things.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a0Laird Hamilton<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/laird-hamilton-competition_55d4fe27e4b055a6dab2d7b5\">Fascinating article in the Huffington Post by Sasha Bronner<\/a>\u00a0about maybe the best surfer in the world, and why he does not enter competitions. Outside of Reno Air Races and some silly US college competitions there aren&#8217;t many competitions for pilots. And that&#8217;s good. The real competition is with yourself, not against others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Flying is a multi-dimensional set of skills that are hard to judge qualitatively. Or as Laird puts it:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It\u2019s very difficult to judge surfing because surfing is art.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/55d503631d00002f0014555f.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-539\" src=\"http:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/55d503631d00002f0014555f.jpeg\" alt=\"Laird Hamilton\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/55d503631d00002f0014555f.jpeg 630w, https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/55d503631d00002f0014555f-150x100.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/55d503631d00002f0014555f-600x400.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A creative man is fulfilled by accomplishments and a competitive man is fulfilled by beating others. I\u2019m all about accomplishments. Ride the biggest wave. It has to do with me. I can always grow and keep accomplishing things. \u00a0Laird Hamilton Fascinating article in the Huffington Post by Sasha Bronner\u00a0about maybe the best surfer in the world, and why he does not enter competitions. Outside of Reno Air Races and some silly US college competitions there aren&#8217;t many competitions for pilots. And that&#8217;s good. The real competition is with yourself, not against others. Flying is a multi-dimensional set of skills that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/22\/how-the-best-become-fulfilled\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading How the best become fulfilled<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,6],"tags":[34,46],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","category-link-to-articles","tag-competition","tag-perpetual-pursuit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions\/540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}