{"id":392,"date":"2012-09-20T18:04:45","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T01:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/?p=392"},"modified":"2012-09-20T18:04:45","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T01:04:45","slug":"forgetting-to-take-an-average","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2012\/09\/forgetting-to-take-an-average\/","title":{"rendered":"Forgetting to Take an Average"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems as if my outlook on life varies drastically with mood. In the moments when I feel brave and ambitious, I rarely seem to remember that <em>it won't last<\/em>: that in a week or a day, the moment will be gone and I'll feel weak and scared again\u2014and of course it goes conversely, too.<\/p>\n<p>We don't have the technology or the wisdom to redesign our own emotions. If the moments of weakness-and-fear aren't going away, and if neither mood is exactly a <em>belief<\/em> that could be destroyed by the truth, then it seems like it would at least be useful to <em>remember<\/em>, if for no other reason than to avoid wasting cognition devising plans and expectations that aren't sufficiently robust to ordinary emotional variation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems as if my outlook on life varies drastically with mood. In the moments when I feel brave and ambitious, I rarely seem to remember that it won't last: that in a week or a day, the moment will &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2012\/09\/forgetting-to-take-an-average\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}