Hear Me Out: Yes, You Can Self Improve Right Now

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🗓️ 2 January 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode of 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: [email protected] Podcast production by Maura Currie. You can skip all the ads in Hear Me Out by joining Slate Plus. Sign up now at slate.com/hearmeoutplus for just $15 a month for your first three months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is here me out. I'm Celeste Hedley. It's a new year and is it a new you?
0:07.0	The self-help and self-improvement industries are thriving right now and have been for years.
0:12.0	This is the season of lofty goal setting designed
0:16.6	to better your life. But we also know that most resolutions fail. So when you look at the year to come, let's think about setting
0:24.7	resolutions and getting advice. You're probably seeing a lot of advice out
0:28.6	there for how to be a better you in 2024. When is that advice worth following? And when should you just let yourself be instead
0:37.0	of trying to be better?
0:39.0	Think about the resolution that you're making and then go like five steps down so you can't make
0:45.4	your goal lose weight your goal should be like tomorrow I'm gonna try to get up from
0:50.6	my desk and walk around the block for five minutes.
0:53.0	Zach Rosen, podcast host and advice giver, joins us
0:57.0	and shares what he thinks might work for you.
1:00.0	Stay with us.
1:06.4	Welcome back to Hear Me Out. I'm Celeste Headley.
1:07.9	As one year ends and another begins, many of us are inspired to set big lofty goals for ourselves in the new year.
1:16.0	Maybe you'll start a new diet or an exercise plan.
1:19.0	Spend less money, stop swearing.
1:21.0	Maybe this is the year you're going to quit social media, quit smoking, or finally
1:25.3	organize your kitchen. But you probably know where I'm going with this by some estimates.
1:31.1	Around 80% or more of people who set New Year's resolutions have given up on them
1:36.6	by the time we get to February 1.
1:40.0	So when you see all those listicles and social media posts about how to finally self actualize in 2024,
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