{"id":59654,"date":"2025-05-11T19:37:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T09:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=59654"},"modified":"2025-05-11T19:37:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T09:37:36","slug":"changing-your-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=59654","title":{"rendered":"Changing Your Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59655\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Changing_Your_Mind.jpg\" alt=\"Changing Your Mind\" width=\"640\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Changing_Your_Mind.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Changing_Your_Mind-300x248.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is not wholly true. Sometimes an original datum can remain uninspected, even in a bright person, such that they cannot receive or operate on new, correct data. There is a technique to handle these false datums by helping the individual expose them to view, thus relinquishing their hold on his thinking.<\/p>\n<p>At other times a datum can be given to a person when he is in a state of fear, grief or apathy such that the datum has the power of a hypnotic suggestion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not wholly true. Sometimes an original datum can remain uninspected, even in a bright person, such that they cannot receive or operate on new, correct data. There is a technique to handle these false datums by helping the individual expose them to view, thus relinquishing their hold on his thinking. At other times &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=59654\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Changing Your Mind&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59656,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59654\/revisions\/59656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}