everybody should give themselves a little bit, I think,

more slack to not necessarily run the marathon,

but walk, you know, do the hike,

if that's the thing you'll enjoy and you'll persist at it.

If you instead had set the goal of

I'm going to become a marathon runner you would have quit by Quitter's Day which PS I

think we are literally talking on Quitter's Day that is my understanding.

What today's Quitter's Day?

Second Friday in January, I was told, is Quitter Day?

What makes it Quitter's Day?

A lot of people quit their New Year's resolutions early

and somebody named it Quitter's Day. Maybe they were

working at Hallmark I'm not sure. But I got a lot of emails from reporters in the

last couple days. Really? It's Quitter's Day this Friday. What are your thoughts?

Are you supposed to give gifts on Quitter's Day this Friday. What are your thoughts? Are you supposed to give gifts on

Critter's Day? I didn't get you anything, I'm sorry. I don't know, but I'm sure that there's some

retailer who's working on that. I do not make New Year's resolutions.

It's not for lack of things that I'd like to change. I wish I exercised more. I wish I spent less time on my phone.

No, the reason I don't make New Year's resolutions is I don't like failing.

And I know that I probably would because changing who you are is really, really hard.

I'm Max Fisher filling in for John Favreau. This week we're talking about the science of

resolutions, why we make them, why they mostly fail, how to make them work. About one

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