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Nassim Taleb Has A Very Sensible Tip For Doing New Year's Resolutions And Sticking To

Author Nassim Taleb has a good suggestion for Doing New Year's Resolutions.

He posted this on his Facebook page:

PLEASE SHARE VIA NEGATIVA RULES.

I am quite certain that new year Resolutions don't really work, are more wishful thinking (gyms are full in January and empty in February)… except that interdicts have worked in history: halal/kashrut dietary laws, etc. I have personally never been successful with positive resolutions, but have been with stated negative year-end rules: in 2007 (never be late for the year 2008 which worked well by injecting redundancies, and seems to have effortless carried over to today) and 2012 (** reading outside of math for 2013, with weak exceptions).

Intuitively this makes sense. Easier to eliminate some bad practice, rather than Doing something new. We'll try in 2014.

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Nassim Taleb Has A Very Sensible Tip For Doing New Year's Resolutions And Sticking To