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My New Year's experiment based on the empirical evidence

New Year’s resolutions experiments

I’ve never been good at New Year’s resolutions. Aside from my utter lack of willpower, it seems that I tend to adopt resolutions that don’t make me feel as good as I thought they would. I almost always drop them before the end of January.

In his book Stumbling on Happiness, psychologist Dan Gilbert argues that this is p…