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Podcast: The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
Episode: Why New Year’s Resolutions Fail
Description: In this episode of New Ideal Live, Don Watkins and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss New Year’s resolutions, what makes them difficult to maintain, and how integrated, contextual thinking can help automatize good habits.
Among the topics covered:
The unhealthy motivation of the “fresh start effect” vs. healthy motivations for resolutions;
Why the fact of automatization makes change both desirable and challenging;
Why a clear, first-handed purpose is necessary for sticking with goals;
The fatal error of oscillating between “all-or-nothing” perfectionism and “I’ll do it when I feel like it” subjectivism;
How to learn from resolution failures;
Framing your resolutions as aspirations f...