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A Better Way to Make New Year’s Resolutions

In the quest for personal change, the method matters.
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Early in 2023, my(4,000 weeks is approximately the length of an average American’s life span). In it, he writes: “The average human lifespan is absurdly, terrifyingly, insultingly short.”

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