How are those New Year’s resolutions going? If you’re persisting, good for you. Many people do not.
I began musing on this problem in December when the writer David Epstein’s Range Widely newsletter asserted that “New Year’s Resolutions Actually Work Astoundingly Well”. Epstein pointed to the work of behavioural economist Katy Milkman, author of and co-discoverer of the “fresh start effect”.