{"id":980,"date":"2009-07-10T10:43:04","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T10:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/?p=980"},"modified":"2009-07-10T11:12:35","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T11:12:35","slug":"i-am-cheated-by-my-feeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/i-am-cheated-by-my-feeling\/","title":{"rendered":"I am cheated, by my feeling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post is nothing about face mask or respirator. It is just a reflection of a trying entrepreneur triggered by a recent incident.<\/p>\n<p>How we feel can be very different from from the facts, and the objective truth.<\/p>\n<p>I was interviewed by a magazine yesterday and after learning about my sales volume the journalist asked: &#8221; When do you think the business will break even?&#8221; Obviously my figure suggested that the business must have some distance to run before it can be break even. Without much hesitation I said I&#8217;ve already recovered what I&#8217;ve invested. I was speaking from my feeling, I really felt that way positively. Some how his question make me feel itchy, I want to find out if the business is objectively and financially balanced.<\/p>\n<p>I get up this morning and can&#8217;t resist to make a quick check, from the time of the early prototyping and patenting as well as the production investment. There is no way I can recover what I&#8217;ve invested so soon. I was so wrong! I didn&#8217;t feel bad or disappointed, I am just curious how can I be so wrong? Am I just stupid? Losing money and still feel pretty good about it? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is nothing about face mask or respirator. It is just a reflection of a trying entrepreneur triggered by a recent incident. How we feel can be very different from from the facts, and the objective truth. I was interviewed by a magazine yesterday and after learning about my sales volume the journalist asked: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[213,211,212],"class_list":{"0":"post-980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-respirator","7":"tag-break-even","8":"tag-entrepreneur","9":"tag-investment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":983,"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions\/983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}