{"id":6100,"date":"2015-07-06T16:09:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T15:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/?p=6100"},"modified":"2015-07-06T16:09:58","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T15:09:58","slug":"dan-ariely-teaches-you-how-to-say-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2015\/07\/06\/dan-ariely-teaches-you-how-to-say-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Ariely teaches you how to say &#8220;no&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Ariely has this autoreply keyed up, so that by typing a single word he can send you this email:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n    Hi,<\/p>\n<p>    This is a very interesting and important topic and close to my heart. But sadly, my life is so full these days that I don&#8217;t even have time for the things I&#8217;ve already promised to do. I even have a few of my own projects that I haven&#8217;t been able to find the time to work on. Not to mention that I have projects with close collaborators that I promised to work on and haven&#8217;t been able to.<\/p>\n<p>    So while this sounds exciting, I know at the end of the day, it would just put me in a deeper spiral of obligation and place even more constraints than I have now. I hope you understand but I have to decline.<\/p>\n<p>    Wishing you all the best and lots of luck.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/im-dan-ariely-author-and-professor-and-this-is-how-i-1615748781\">Source<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Ariely has this autoreply keyed up, so that by typing a single word he can send you this email: Hi, This is a very interesting and important topic and close to my heart. But sadly, my life is so full these days that I don&#8217;t even have time for the things I&#8217;ve already promised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intellectual-self-defence"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-1Ao","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6102,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6100\/revisions\/6102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}