Elo comments on New year's resolutions: Things worth considering for next year - Less Wrong

5 Post author: Elo 07 December 2015 12:09AM

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Comment author: Elo 09 December 2015 10:59:00PM 0 points [-]

seems reasonable. The thing about January is that it's a schelling point (for many people) for higher-level considerations than the usual month-to-month goal setting might be. Indeed people could and should do that any time. But if they haven't they should do it in January (AKA now for January)

Comment author: RichardKennaway 10 December 2015 11:20:23AM 0 points [-]

The idea is to still use 1 January as a Schelling point, but to work towards it in advance, as one does for Christmas.