{"id":654,"date":"2012-08-26T11:37:14","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T18:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gihamilton.com\/blog\/?p=654"},"modified":"2017-04-04T10:27:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T17:27:14","slug":"after-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gihamilton.com\/blog\/after-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"After the Summit &#8230; Heading Back Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever reached some sort of pinnacle of achievement\u2014 something you dreamed about and suddenly it becomes real\u2014 there is always the aftermath.<\/p>\n<p>My continued agonizing to sort out what&#8217;s next after the release of <a title=\"Official site of The Movement\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/TheMovemt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">our film<\/a> (no small time ago) is actually pretty absurd. Though there&#8217;s plenty of room in my day for big new projects, I do have enough work to do, there are dreams in the hopper, and I have a business plan of sorts. But I&#8217;m guilty of what filmmaking story consultant Fernanda Rossi called &#8220;retro-engineering.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>We achieve something and we look back and we decide what of the acts we did were leading to success. But we don&#8217;t know, really, what led to success. We do a ton of things, there are a lot of variables in the universe, and then we nitpick, we choose the ones that we think led to success. <\/em>\u2013 Fernanda Rossi<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the following interview, Fernanda, <a title=\"Film story consultant Fernanda Rossi\" href=\"http:\/\/www.documentarydoctor.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Documentary Doctor&#8221;<\/a> who has consulted on at least two Academy Award\u00ae Nominee films, discusses success. First of all, she doesn&#8217;t believe in it.<\/p>\n<p>Click below to view this 3-minute video:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/embed\/video\/xfoto8\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/xfoto8_fernanda-rossi-author-on-secrets-to-success_shortfilms\" target=\"_blank\">Fernanda Rossi, Author, on secrets to success.<\/a> <i>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/maxwellflower\" target=\"_blank\">maxwellflower<\/a><\/i><br \/>\nIn the video, she says: &#8220;I believe in meaningful acts every day. And if they lead to success, whatever success is, great.&#8221; What&#8217;s your definition of success? And what do you do <em>after<\/em> you&#8217;ve achieved it?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading. Cheers,<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5 alignnone\" style=\"margin: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Greg\" src=\"https:\/\/gihamilton.com\/blog\/images\/greg_signed72.jpg\" alt=\"Greg\" width=\"72\" height=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photo by yours truly <a title=\"Photos from atop a mountain\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/steamboatdigs\/7865905596\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">atop &#8220;Yahoo Point&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the video, she says: &#8220;I believe in meaningful acts every day. And if they lead to success, whatever success is, great.&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gihamilton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gihamilton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gihamilton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gihamilton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gihamilton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/gihamilton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879,"href":"https:\/\/gihamilton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gihamilton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gihamilton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gihamilton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}