I worry that new year’s resolutions are a Schelling point for failed self-improvement that, by using a fundamentally flawed approach, tend to fail and then discourage people from future attempts at positive change.
Can we try to switch to the meme of “Annual retreat & reflect about one’s life, goals, and habits”, rather than these so frequently failed “resolutions”, whose very name implies that the solution is more “resolve”, and thus the problem is insufficient “resolve”, rather than insufficient experimentation, knowledge about habit formation, realism about achievable change, or any of the other numerous actual reasons?
I mean, it’s 2010, and we know we lose weight through hacks, not the application of more willpower—same goes for anything else.
I worry that new year’s resolutions are a Schelling point for failed self-improvement that, by using a fundamentally flawed approach, tend to fail and then discourage people from future attempts at positive change.
Can we try to switch to the meme of “Annual retreat & reflect about one’s life, goals, and habits”, rather than these so frequently failed “resolutions”, whose very name implies that the solution is more “resolve”, and thus the problem is insufficient “resolve”, rather than insufficient experimentation, knowledge about habit formation, realism about achievable change, or any of the other numerous actual reasons?
I mean, it’s 2010, and we know we lose weight through hacks, not the application of more willpower—same goes for anything else.