Peter Wildeford comments on 2015 New Years Resolution Thread

Peter Wildeford 25 Dec 2014 17:09 UTC
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Strictly speaking, is there any advantage for people who want to improve themselves to coordinate their efforts to start on the same day?

Not really, but there’s an advantage to having one particular day on which to do things, to avoid the “I’ll do it someday” problem.
- brazil84 26 Dec 2014 16:08 UTC
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  Not really, but there’s an advantage to having one particular day on which to do things, to avoid the “I’ll do it someday” problem.
  
  I think that’s probably true, although I think it’s along the lines of what I mentioned earlier—a kind of internal Schelling Point.
  
  There’s also the problem that it might create another kind of “I’ll do it someday” problem. For example, a person might pig out on Thanksgiving and Christmas and justify it to himself saying “Starting January 1 I will eat healthy and hit the gym every day.”