Resolutions! Or Not!
If you're still struggling to decide on your goals for the New Year, Neuronarrative gives us the reassuring example of the influential psychologist William James, who was notoriously indecisive, and spent 15 years trying to choose a career, switching from science to painting, back to science, natural history, medicine etc.
His diary for the end of 1905 has a familiar look to some of us:
'October 26: "Resign!"
October 28: "Resign!!!"
November 4: "Resign?"
November 7: "Resign!"
November 8: "Don't resign"
November 9: "Resign!"
November 16: "Don't resign!"
November 23: "Resign"
December 7: "Don't resign"
December 9: "Teach here next year".'