{"id":560,"date":"2010-01-24T16:12:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T21:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=560"},"modified":"2010-01-24T16:12:34","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T21:12:34","slug":"the-definition-of-insanity-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/24\/the-definition-of-insanity-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Definition of Insanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The condition of being insane, a derangement of the mind<\/li>\n<li><em>Law<\/em> Such unsoundness of mind as affects legal responsibility or capacity<\/li>\n<li><em>Psychiatry<\/em> (formerly) Psychosis<\/li>\n<li>Extreme folly; senselessness; foolhardiness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard it a eleventy billion times:\u00a0 &#8220;Isn&#8217;t that the definition of insanity?\u00a0 Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Just so we&#8217;re clear, No.\u00a0 Not the definition of insanity.\u00a0 If I want to do the same thing over and over and expect a different result, that might mean I&#8217;m persistent, or insistent, or hopeful, or maybe even dumb.\u00a0 But I&#8217;m not insane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The condition of being insane, a derangement of the mind Law Such unsoundness of mind as affects legal responsibility or capacity Psychiatry (formerly) Psychosis Extreme folly; senselessness; foolhardiness I&#8217;ve heard it a eleventy billion times:\u00a0 &#8220;Isn&#8217;t that the definition of insanity?\u00a0 Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result?&#8221; Just so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/24\/the-definition-of-insanity-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Definition of Insanity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions\/565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}