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How little experiments can lead to big success | Emmanuel Acho and David Epstein

TED Talks Daily

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Rethinking New Year's Resolutions

This chapter critiques traditional goal-setting approaches, particularly New Year's resolutions, highlighting their potential to hinder personal growth. Through personal anecdotes from athletics, it emphasizes the importance of intrinsic motivation and flexible, actionable objectives over rigid targets. Listeners are encouraged to explore behavioral changes through small experiments and to view personal development as an evolving journey rather than a fixed endpoint.

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