by Maria Popova on (the great website) Brain Pickings
What Iraqi kebob vendors have to do with your New Year’s
resolutions.
Extract:
“As a young man, Benjamin Franklin set out to improve
himself by devising a chart-based log for tracking his progress against the
virtues he identified as essential to good personhood. Each week, he would pick
a virtue to cultivate, then put a black pencil mark in his calendar chart on
any day he failed to uphold the virtue. This visual feedback on his progress
encouraged him, and allowed him to move to a different virtue the following
week, hoping that each week would leave him with a “habitude” for that particular
virtue.”
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