A few days into the new year and most of us are already beginning to waver in our earnest resolve to skip dessert, hit the gym every morning, and finish War and Peace. It's a well-known phenomenon that recurs every year and that economists have formalized into a theory called hyperbolic discounting.
"We are more optimistic about our future and our future selves than we are in the present," says David Rose, an entrepreneur and founder of Vitality, a medical-monitoring startup. In other words, it's easy to make plans about how healthy, responsible, and efficient we will be next week but hard to execute them once next week becomes today.
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Author: Emily Singer
