{"id":467,"date":"2011-08-26T07:13:53","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T11:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ohe.5c7.myftpupload.com\/?p=467"},"modified":"2012-12-18T17:17:44","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T22:17:44","slug":"reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/?p=467","title":{"rendered":"Reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ohe.5c7.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/information.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1034\" title=\"information\" src=\"http:\/\/ohe.5c7.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/information-170x170.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/information-170x170.jpg 170w, https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/information.jpg 204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/><\/a>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/captology\/stanford-6401325\" target=\"_blank\">top mistake #7 in behavior change<\/a>: believing that information leads to action.\u00a0 Again, the lab techies offer an observation rather than a &#8216;solution&#8217;: we humans aren&#8217;t so rational.<\/p>\n<p>Hear, hear! Information may give us a leg up on <em>knowing<\/em> about something. But knowing and doing aren&#8217;t the same. We know far more than we&#8217;re able to translate into action, especially consistent action, which is what change is really about.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, reason doesn&#8217;t make us act. <em>Emotion<\/em> does. Reason just makes us think. Doubt it? Then check out neuroscientist Antonio Damasio&#8217;s book, <em>Descartes&#8217; Error. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s top mistake #7 in behavior change: believing that information leads to action.\u00a0 Again, the lab techies offer an observation rather than a &#8216;solution&#8217;: we humans aren&#8217;t so rational. Hear, hear! Information may give us a leg up on knowing about something. But knowing and doing aren&#8217;t the same. We know far more than we&#8217;re&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,5,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","category-emotion","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035,"href":"https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions\/1035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inourrightmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}