The Fresh Start Effect #shorts

a lot of people think that New Year's resolutions don't work but behavioral scientists disagree let's talk about the Fresh Start effect what the Fresh Start effect is it's our tendency to be extremely optimistic about our capacity to change at moments in our lives that feel like Fresh Starts or New Beginnings the classic example of this is New Year's and New Year's resolutions but if you look around you can find Fresh Starts everywhere ever every Monday we're

a little bit more optimistic and more likely to pursue our goals we see the same pattern when we look at the start of a new semester for students we feel like at the beginning of these new Cycles in our lives we've turned the page on who we are and when you look at the data it's clear that Fresh Starts make a huge difference if we encourage someone to begin pursuing a goal and we highlight a fresh

start date on the calendar in front of them they're more excited and more likely to say yes on those fresh dark dates so whether it's a new year or a new week now might be the best time for a fresh start