{"id":16462,"date":"2015-01-04T10:21:37","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T09:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16462"},"modified":"2015-01-04T10:21:37","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T09:21:37","slug":"want-a-new-year-resolution-try-this-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=16462","title":{"rendered":"Want a New Year resolution? Try this one."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;\u2026 resolve to cut everyone a massive amount of slack, including yourself. That\u2019s the overarching conclusion of social psychology: we\u2019re all staggeringly imperfect organisms, prone to making bad decisions when stress, busyness or poverty robs us of \u201ccognitive bandwidth\u201d. We habitually excuse our own bad behaviour as the result of special circumstances, while blaming others\u2019 misdemeanours on deep-down nastiness. Or we torment ourselves with how much more accomplished everyone else is, when really it\u2019s just that we lack access to their inner monologues of self-doubt. So: ease up.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Recommended by Oliver Burkeman in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2015\/jan\/02\/oliver-burkeman-new-years-resolutions-worth-making\">his latest edition of &#8220;This column will change your life&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;\u2026 resolve to cut everyone a massive amount of slack, including yourself. That\u2019s the overarching conclusion of social psychology: we\u2019re all staggeringly imperfect organisms, prone to making bad decisions when stress, busyness or poverty robs us of \u201ccognitive bandwidth\u201d. We habitually excuse our own bad behaviour as the result of special circumstances, while blaming others\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16462"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16464,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16462\/revisions\/16464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}