Could Your New Year Spirit Be Working Against You and Your Resolutions?

Beware of “false hope syndrome”

Ria Tagulinao
Forge
Published in
5 min readDec 8, 2021

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“It’s January 1”, my former boss said. “So what?”

Many people revel in the high of yet another new year — but not him. Despite being an optimistic, goal-driven person, he didn’t bother with grand resolutions. He also questioned the extraordinary hype around…

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Ria Tagulinao
Forge
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