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

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

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Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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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: [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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0:22.0	Keep it fun, chat with friends, and play safely at Tumbola.
0:26.4	Players must be over 18.
0:28.0	Woh-ohoo-ohoo.
0:30.4	Hey Karen Feeding listeners, we're off today because of the holiday, but we'll be back on Thursday. In the meantime, we have a super fun episode for you to check out. Our very own Zach Rosen was on another slate podcast, Hear Me Out, to talk about taking advice, giving advice,
0:45.6	and making self-improvement stick in the New Year.
0:48.2	Enjoy.
0:49.2	This is Hear Me Out.
0:52.0	I'm Celeste Hedley. It's a new year and is it a new you?
0:56.0	The self-help and self-improvement industries are thriving right now and have been for years.
1:02.0	This is the season of lofty goal setting designed to better your life.
1:07.2	But we also know that most resolutions fail. So when you look at the year to come, let's think about setting resolutions and getting advice.
1:15.8	You're probably seeing a lot of advice out there for how to be a better you in 2024.
1:21.5	When is that advice worth following? And when should you just let yourself be instead of trying to be better?
1:28.0	Think about the resolution that you're making and then go like five steps down. So you can't make your goal lose weight.
1:36.0	Your goal should be like tomorrow I'm gonna try to get up from my desk and walk around the
1:40.8	block for five minutes. Zach Rosen, podcast host and advice giver joins us
1:46.0	and shares what he thinks might work for you.
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