{"id":1965,"date":"2016-07-18T05:03:53","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T12:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=1965"},"modified":"2016-07-18T05:08:35","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T12:08:35","slug":"lets-play-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=1965","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Play!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150116.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150116.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1969\" \/><\/a>Zimbardo and Boyd say you can look for happiness in the past or future, but you \u201cexperience happiness only in the present.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Their research shows that adults who live with a present time perspective are more playful and impulsive, are given to excitement and novelty and are spontaneous. They make friends easily and frequently, and these \u201cpresents\u201d laugh significantly more than future and past oriented folks.<\/p>\n<p>The Stanford psychologists point out that all of us begin life as presents. Children don\u2019t look backward or forward but live in the now, which is why they spend so much time playing and laughing.<\/p>\n<p>According to the doctors, in retirement we need to \u201cramp up\u201d our present orientation because \u201csuccessful aging is for the young at heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sounds good to me.<\/p>\n<p>(I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bestyears.com\/play.html\" target=\"_blank\">written about this before<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbardo and Boyd say you can look for happiness in the past or future, but you \u201cexperience happiness only in the present.&#8221; Their research shows that adults who live with a present time perspective are more playful and impulsive, are given to excitement and novelty and are spontaneous. They make friends easily and frequently, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1965"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1971,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions\/1971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}