Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - Hear Me Out: Yes, You Can Self-Improve Right Now
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
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🗓️ 15 January 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
From our friends at Slate's Hear Me Out:… new year, new you?
If you’ve resolved to make 2024 your happiest, healthiest, most organized, most peaceful, etc. year yet? You’re not alone. And if you’re pretty sure the people who have made resolutions are doomed to abandon ship before January is over … you’re not alone, either. Nor are you wrong, exactly.
In the season of giving, getting, and evaluating self-improvement advice, there’s a line between over-optimism and self-limiting skepticism. And our guest wants to help you walk that line.
Zak Rosen, host of The Best Advice Show and co-host of Slate’s Care & Feeding, joins us.
If you have thoughts you want to share, or an idea for a topic we should tackle, you can email the show: hearmeout@slate.com
Podcast production by Maura Currie.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Karen Feeding listeners. We're off today because of the holiday, but we'll be back on Thursday. |
| 0:05.6 | In the meantime, we have a super fun episode for you to check out. Our very own Zach Rosen was on another |
| 0:11.2 | Slate podcast, Hear Me Out, to talk about taking advice, giving advice, and making self-improvement |
| 0:16.8 | stick in the new year. Enjoy. This is Hear Me Out. I'm Celeste Headley. It's a new year and is it a new |
| 0:25.3 | you? The self-help and self-improvement industries are thriving right now and have been for years. |
| 0:31.9 | This is the season of lofty goal setting designed to better your life. But we also know that most resolutions fail. |
| 0:40.6 | So when you look at the year to come, let's think about setting resolutions and getting advice. |
| 0:45.6 | You're probably seeing a lot of advice out there for how to be a better you in 2024. |
| 0:51.2 | When is that advice worth following? |
| 0:52.9 | And when should you just let yourself be instead of trying to be |
| 0:56.8 | better? Think about the resolution that you're making and then go like five steps down. So you can't |
| 1:04.3 | make your goal lose weight. Your goal should be like tomorrow I'm going to try to get up from my desk |
| 1:10.1 | and walk around the block for five minutes. |
| 1:12.5 | Zach Rosen, podcast host and advice giver, joins us and shares what he thinks might work for you. |
| 1:19.0 | Stay with us. |
| 1:23.2 | Welcome back to Hear Me Out. |
| 1:25.4 | I'm Celeste Headley. |
| 1:26.7 | As one year ends and another begins, many of us are |
| 1:29.6 | inspired to set big lofty goals for ourselves in the new year. Maybe you'll start a new diet or an |
| 1:37.1 | exercise plan, spend less money, stop swearing. Maybe this is the year you're going to quit social media, |
| 1:42.6 | quit smoking, or finally organize your kitchen. |
| 1:46.1 | But you probably know where I'm going with this. By some estimates, around 80% or more of people who set New Year's resolutions have given up on them by the time we get to February 1. |
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