{"id":972,"date":"2021-05-14T17:04:52","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T17:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-583903-1890774.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=972"},"modified":"2021-05-29T17:50:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T17:50:56","slug":"taylor-swift-on-how-to-navigate-negativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/2021\/05\/14\/taylor-swift-on-how-to-navigate-negativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift on How to Navigate Negativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even if you\u2019re not one of Taylor Swift\u2019s legion of devoted fans, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BRITs\/status\/1392224972639281156?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1392224972639281156%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpeople.com%2Fmusic%2Ftaylor-swift-wins-global-icon-award-brits-2021%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">her acceptance speech<\/a><\/strong> at Tuesday\u2019s 2021 BRIT Awards is worth a listen.<\/p>\n<p>Swift was given the Global Icon award, an honour that celebrates artists who have made a worldwide impact \u2014 not just through their music, but also through their advocacy. (To give you an idea of the elite company she joins, past honourees include Elton John and David Bowie.)<\/p>\n<p>She took the first half of her speech to thank the people she\u2019d worked with over the past year, and to thank her UK fans for their support. But it\u2019s at the 2:36 mark that things get real, after Swift thanks her friends and family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there\u2019s one thing that I\u2019ve learned, it\u2019s that you have to look around you everyday, and take note of the people who have always believed in you,\u201d she says, advising that you never take those people for granted.<\/p>\n<p>She goes on to address the newer artists in the room, as well as anyone listening who has a goal or a dream that they\u2019re working towards. \u201cThere is no career path that comes free of negativity. If you\u2019re being met with resistance, that probably means that you\u2019re doing something new. If you\u2019re experiencing turbulence or pressure, that probably means you\u2019re rising.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if you\u2019re not one of Taylor Swift\u2019s legion of devoted fans, her acceptance speech at Tuesday\u2019s 2021 BRIT Awards is worth a listen. Swift was given the Global Icon award, an honour that celebrates artists who have made a worldwide impact \u2014 not just through their music, but also through their advocacy. (To give [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":979,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions\/979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}