Your Brain is Wired to Break New Year’s Resolutions

Trying to stick to New Year resolutions without changing the way your brain is wired is like trying to push a shopping cart with a wonky wheel — you know, the one that keeps veering off to one side when you’re trying to push it in a straight line? As long as that wheel is wonky, you’ll need to fight with the cart to keep it going in the direction you want it to go.

But, once you change that wheel — put a new wheel in its place — then the cart will automatically go in any direction you choose to push it! It’s the same with the unconscious part…