# Prof. Hal Hershfield on why New Year's Resolutions are difficult to keep

1 Faculty News January 4, 2013 ![Boston Globe logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030922.jpg?itok=mRV2WGZx)>

Excerpt from the [Boston Globe](http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2013/01/04/meet-future-you-now-nice/JbbADWr27nlm58Pp9wljSP/story.html) -- “Early on I would have said, ‘We’ve got to think about our future self as a direct extension of ourselves now ... But now I think ... it’s fine to think about that future self as another person -- it just has to be another person you feel close to and have a lot of overlap with.”

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