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And I'm Darien Woods. And it's that time of the year, we all start making those resolutions.

Resolutions. Exactly. Darien Woods, what is your New Year's resolution for this year, or at least one of them?

I want to take an improv class, you know, improvisation, theater sports, that kind of thing.

Just for fun. I want to learn how to make jokes in real time.

Okay, okay, I love that. My resolution is a little bit the other kind of resolution,

which is to stop doing something, trying to stop watching so much TV.

Okay, I already feel like I'm failing at it somehow.

Yeah, it's barely started.

But you know, like keeping resolutions is really hard, but this of course is where behavioral

economics can help. KT Milkman is a professor at Warton School of Business, and she's the author

of How to Change. She's spent years studying why we make the decisions we make, and how we can make

different decisions and maybe even keep our resolutions.

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