Lifestyle: Mind And Body 2.0: Self-Improvement By The Experts

The custom of making New Year’s resolutions is at least 4,000 years old. The Ancient Babylonians promised they’d get out of debt and return borrowed objects (at a guess, gardening equipment). The custom of breaking New Year’s resolutions must therefore be nearly as old. And the impulse to try and do better, be better, older still. Certainly it predates the self-help or personal development industrial complex.

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