{"id":5854,"date":"2015-01-18T15:02:02","date_gmt":"2015-01-18T20:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/?p=5854"},"modified":"2015-01-18T15:39:02","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T20:39:02","slug":"another-jump-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2015\/01\/another-jump-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Jump Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s really been a rough several months. I haven&#8217;t been writing here. Either my writing is offline, part of an eventual project waiting for the right ending, or else it&#8217;s therapeutic writing that really no-one else should see.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been personally challenged in a number of ways, and have learned several more *very* difficult but very valuable lessons. I&#8217;ve had to rearrange my priorities and go back to basics on some skills that I haven&#8217;t had to focus on in quite some time. <\/p>\n<p>While I can&#8217;t get into the circumstances, I CAN jot down a few things that have lowered my stress level, improved my health, and helped me to accept and release things that I do not have the power to improve, heal or enhance. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Be calm. Be just as calm as you can, no matter what.<\/li>\n<li> Do not get cornered. Do not allow yourself to be pushed into a defensive stance.<\/li>\n<li>Remember: <a href=\"http:\/\/rationalwiki.org\/wiki\/Dunning-Kruger_effect\" title=\"The Dunning-Kruger Effect\">The Dunning-Kruger Effect<\/a> &#8211; not your problem or your responsibility to fix. Don&#8217;t internalize.<\/li>\n<li>Keep rereading this and just practice, practice, practice, even if the need for it continues to be infuriating at some level: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikihow.com\/Deal-With-Impossible-People\" title=\"How to Deal with Impossible People\">How to Deal with Impossible People<\/a><\/li>\n<ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be calm. Be just as calm as you can, no matter what.<br \/>\nRemember: The Dunning-Kruger Effect means that you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t always get the respect that you deserve, but\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s their problem, not yours, so don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t internalize it.<br \/>\nKeep rereading this and just practice, practice, practice, even if the need for it continues to be infuriating at some level: How to Deal with Impossible People<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,1,6],"tags":[6123,6124,6122,6125,3459,6126],"class_list":["post-5854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-technology-and-science","category-leftovers","category-personal","tag-calm","tag-dunning-kruger","tag-impossible-people","tag-infuriating","tag-stress","tag-wasted-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5854"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5861,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854\/revisions\/5861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}