{"id":370,"date":"2006-04-19T07:44:51","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T12:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=370"},"modified":"2020-01-02T12:20:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T17:20:07","slug":"you-are-who-you-hang-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/you-are-who-you-hang-with\/","title":{"rendered":"You are who you hang with"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Found this morning via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instapundit.com\">Instapundit<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/headrush.typepad.com\/creating_passionate_users\/\">a blog about neuroscience and metacognition written for lay people<\/a>. I&#8217;ve just added it to my blogroll after reading a post there about a political blogger&#8217;s decision to close comments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/headrush.typepad.com\/creating_passionate_users\/2006\/04\/angrynegative_p.html\">The article argues<\/a>, based on research on mirror neurons (which I&#8217;ve blogged about <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/mind-meld\/\">here<\/a>) and other phenomenon that avoiding unhappy people, and surrounding yourself with people who exhibit qualities you want to cultivate in yourself, is a highly rational and constructive thing to do.<\/p>\n<p>One piece of advice you often find in self-help books on personal transformation is that sometimes you need to drop your old friends and find new ones. It turns out that bit of folk wisdom may actually have a basis in science . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found this morning via Instapundit: a blog about neuroscience and metacognition written for lay people. I&#8217;ve just added it to my blogroll after reading a post there about a political blogger&#8217;s decision to close comments. The article argues, based on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/you-are-who-you-hang-with\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,28,7],"tags":[957,960,690,959,516,958],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-science","category-spirituality","tag-creating-passionate-users","tag-emotional-contagion","tag-happiness","tag-metacognition","tag-mirror-neurons","tag-neuroscience"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5773,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/5773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}