A Neuroscientist’s Advice on New Year’s Resolutions

Some say making New Year’s resolutions is pointless. They are wrong. It’s a way our culture helps us harness one of the human brain’s most remarkable capacities: our ability to think about our own thinking. Resolutions remind us to step back from the hurley-burley and ask: Am I pursuing the right goals, and pursuing them in the right ways?

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Any of us can use the latest neuroscience to improve our thinking about thinking. It can help give us the grit to...