Self-improvement for advanced skiers

Fast? But sure, since Ash Wednesday! And, yes, of course until Easter, at least until Easter. No meat. No alcohol. No sweets. Sports every day. Discuss with an AFD voter once a week. Remove the old to-do list. Be friendly and nice, even boring. To this end, digital detoxification of course tightened: only three times a day to seize the psychoprosthesis and check a maximum of fifteen minutes emails and social media.

Good! Very good! But were not the good New Year's resolutions exactly nine program points? And did not they sound, well, yes, very similar? Only 12 percent of people manage to keep their New Year or Lent intentions , so 88 percent fail.

Why is that? And if so, why do we keep trying? Why do people make intentions on New Year's Eve? Are they depriving themselves of the beginning of Lent, high and holy? And do you already know that it will not work again afterwards? How to become world champion in the tolerance of your own failure?

On the one hand, it is innate, an adjustment disorder to a certain extent. The human brain wants to spare its resources, it avoids activation energy, so it is basically lazy and likes to run on autopilot. To continue doing as before seems always to be the more economical option for the brain. Experiment series have shown that it takes an average of 66 days for a person to really reapply a good habit or train a bad one. In other words, anyone who manages it for 66 days has made it.

On the other hand, because people in multi-option societies suffer from chronic voluptuousness, smartphone fasting, for example, could be the best way to get started in those 66 days. A few days of ordered use of psychoprostheses releases amazing willpower for greater things.


If you want to try it, you should divide the 66 days into three phases, which are explained in the big essay to the habit change. And no, no one has to wait until the next Ash Wednesday, but rather stick with Confucius: "If you intend to renew yourself, do it every day."