{"id":9544,"date":"2021-08-15T02:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T02:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9544"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:39","slug":"debating-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9544","title":{"rendered":"DEBATING MYSELF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Third period each day I teach &#8220;Communications&#8221; to a handful of 7th graders. They are a really neat class so far.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday I asked one of these students what she had planned for the weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She said, &#8220;Well, I SHOULD clean up my bedroom, but I might just debate with myself.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What did she mean by debating herself?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I debate myself over my room. I don&#8217;t want to clean it, but I feel really good when it is clean.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I thought that was incredibly perceptive, especially for such a young person: Procrastination involves debating myself. If procrastination is a habit, then I am endlessly debating myself.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And if I am successful in putting something off, I have won a debate &#8230; against my better self.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Third period each day I teach &#8220;Communications&#8221; to a handful of 7th graders. They are a really neat class so far.\u00a0 Yesterday I asked one of these students what she had planned for the weekend.\u00a0 She said, &#8220;Well, I SHOULD clean up my bedroom, but I might just debate with myself.&#8221; What did she mean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9545,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9544\/revisions\/9545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}