{"id":9637,"date":"2015-04-08T09:48:50","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T16:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=9637"},"modified":"2019-12-24T07:25:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T15:25:45","slug":"on-being-a-good-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2015\/04\/08\/on-being-a-good-person\/","title":{"rendered":"On Being a Good Person"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2811,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/youtu.be\\\/MbdxeFcQtaU&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/watch?v=MbdxeFcQtaU&amp;feature=youtu.be&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n  In general, I think we need to move away from the premise that being a good person is a fixed immutable characteristic and shift towards seeing being good as a practice. And it is a practice that we carry out by engaging with our imperfections. We need to shift towards thinking that being a good person is like being a clean person. Being a clean person is something you maintain and work on every day. We don&#8217;t assume &#8220;I am a clean person therefore I don&#8217;t need to brush my teeth.&#8221; When someone suggests to us that we have something stuck in our teeth we don&#8217;t say to them &#8220;What do you mean I have something stuck in my teeth&#8212;but I&#8217;m a clean person?!&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/MbdxeFcQtaU\">Jay Smooth<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In general, I think we need to move away from the premise that being a good person is a fixed immutable characteristic and shift towards seeing being good as a practice. And it is a practice that we carry out by engaging with our imperfections. We need to shift towards thinking that being a good person is like being a clean person. Being a clean person is something you maintain and work on every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-9637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-personal","tag-quotes","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}