“Always do your very best. Even when no one else is looking, you always are. Don’t disappoint yourself.”
— Colin Powell
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As I’ve mentioned here before, I don’t really do New Year’s resolutions. That said, I am not immune to the “fresh start effect,” which can make it easier to begin new projects, habits, or other goals around a new week, month, or year.
So today I’m considering what new projects, habits and goals I want to bring with me into 2024.
And whether you’re the sort of person who makes resolutions or not, this article may help with next steps.
How to keep your New Year’s resolutions according to a behavioral economist (Planet Money podcast, with transcript)
It’s the first full week of 2022, and many of us are already feeling the “fresh start effect,” according to behavioral economist Katy Milkman. We’re excited to pursue new goals and we feel a renewed sense of purpose that new beginnings can bring. Still, keeping New Year’s resolutions is often easier said than done.
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We’re not feeling 100% here at Chez J so we’re stocking up on couch time and sick tea. What is sick tea? For us, it’s Celestial Seasonings’ Raspberry Zinger with a lot of lemon juice, ginger, cinnamon, and a boatload of honey or maple syrup, depending on what’s in the pantry. (I may also snack on hot sauce, because sinuses don’t clear themselves!)
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“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
— Joan Didion
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For the days when I look down at the book I’m reading and think, “No research is worth this.”
“If a book is tedious to you, don’t read it; that book was not written for you.”
—Jorge Luis Borges
I’m also a firm believer in this:
“I don’t believe in guilty pleasures… If you like something, like it.”
— Dave Grohl
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This holiday season, I discovered that my oven is running 25F degrees too hot. I note this fact here as a helpful reminder that a cheap oven thermometer can be quite informative, and that the timing on some of the recipes I’ve posted here may not match yours. If, you know, your oven actually works as it should.
Even so, happy baking!
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“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
— Pablo Picasso
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For me, the end of a year is a great time to think about the future.
What did one of science fiction’s most acclaimed writers think about the future back in 1980, what’s changed, and which of his predictions have already come to pass?
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Robert J. Sawyer, Canadian author extraordinaire, has a wide variety of abilities and interests. He also, apparently, liked to watch the Six Million Dollar Man.
Specifications for The Six Million Dollar Man
There doesn’t seem to be an accurate version of the specifications for cyborg Steve Austin’s bionic parts anywhere online, so I have put one together.
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I prepped a post for yesterday and assumed I was all set, but didn’t actually get it scheduled into the correct slot. Drrp. So I’m posting an extra one today, and linking to a fascinating graphic on cognitive bias and the many (many) types of assumptions humans are prone to making.
Every Single Cognitive Bias in One Infographic
Science has shown that we tend to make all sorts of mental mistakes, called “cognitive biases”, that can affect both our thinking and actions. These biases can lead to us extrapolating information from the wrong sources, seeking to confirm existing beliefs, or failing to remember events the way they actually happened!
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