{"id":71,"date":"2014-06-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sqlhammer.com\/blog\/dont-feed-the-monkeys-3-ways-to-help-people-solve-their-own-problems"},"modified":"2026-03-18T21:51:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T21:51:03","slug":"dont-feed-the-monkeys-3-ways-to-help-people-solve-their-own-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/2014\/06\/16\/dont-feed-the-monkeys-3-ways-to-help-people-solve-their-own-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t feed the monkeys 3 ways to help people solve their own problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have struggled to learn how to stop feeding the monkeys for quite some time. I\u2019m happy to see that commitment is being listed as a major factor here. I find lack of commitment to be far more common then lack of competency.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/leadingwithtrust.com\/2013\/11\/03\/dont-fee-the-monkeys-3-ways-to-help-people-solve-their-own-problems\/\">LeadingWithTrust.com \u2013 Don\u2019t Feed the Monkeys 3 ways to help people solve their own problems<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have struggled to learn how to stop feeding the monkeys for quite some time. I\u2019m happy to see that commitment is being listed as a major factor here. I find lack of commitment to be far more common then lack of competency. LeadingWithTrust.com \u2013 Don\u2019t Feed the Monkeys 3 ways to help people solve [&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":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}