We asked for it. When you ask BD a question like this, you can be sure his response will make you feel so foolish that you asked him what you did. Be that as it may, do read what Dr Bhaskar Das has said in a week-before-New Year edition of Das ka Dum. Read on…
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Q. It’s the time of the year when one makes resolutions for the next year. In order to help our readers, can you recommend one or more recommendations for their resolutions for 2021? What should they be?
A. To my mind, it’s one the biggest fads. The resolutions are more often than not broken than followed. So, one has to have the will power to make them happen.
I don’t want to sound like a negative thinking person but most of us make these resolutions with the same seriousness as a person with a flippant attitude. If one is really serious about making a desired change in one’s personal or professional life, it doesn’t have to be done in the same way. One should work towards creating conditions for predictable success. It falls within the ambit of behavioural economics.
Without getting bogged down in academic minutiae, I would like to submit that if one wants a desired outcome, one needs to nudge oneself toward behaviours that would lead to the same and consciously get away from actions that might lead to straying from that outcome. And, for each individual, there would be independent goal posts and hence resolutions can’t be generalised for people at large.