Against Self-Optimization
What if we're doing New Year's resolutions all wrong?
On New Year's Eve, my cousin told me: "You shouldn’t be too excited, your life on Earth is getting closer to the end.” I found this amusingly morbid but I appreciated the candor. Time, actually, is running out.
In my new Washington Post column [free link], I argue that we need to rethink the entire concept of New Yea…
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