Opinion

Forget New Year’s resolutions; just make mistakes

by editor on January 14, 2015

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This early in the new year, print and digital media can’t say enough about resolutions. On ABC News, it’s the science behind achieving them, while Time.com warns us of the pitfalls that destroy them.

Some outlets, interested in the more complex reasons that cause more than 90 percent of New Year’s resolutions to fail, examine types of goals more likely to succeed than others (see Quartz.com’s December interview of Harvard Education Professor Lisa…