Good idea! I had to totally retire as my post was grant funded & UCL had no interest in paying me once other people took over my final big grant. But I doubt I would have been able to write 2 revisions of Health Inequality any other way. I am nowhere near so fit as you.
I’ve done the semi-retire thing. Am also writing the book(s) though without the resolution. Good luck with yours Trish! Can’t imagine you retired though, semi or full.
Thank you! It looks amazing. News we can use! I will on-recommend to UK based questers. From a side quest to Melbourne i can recommend Naruto's black sesame and their yuzu!
For many years my New Year's Resolution was to eat more butter, because I recognised that eating butter made me happy. But deep into middle age my desire to eat more butter is mitigated by my desire to be less spherical, which complicates matters.
I don't think new year's resolutions have to be set up for failure; it's just that there's more to it than "I want to change." What I realized is that you need to dig into your mindset as well; you can't stop a plant from growing without digging up its roots.
I feel like for change to be lasting, there needs to be meaning behind it. Why should Jan 1 be a catalyst for change? A catalyst should be deep and meaningful.
Have you looked at the state of the world recently? If we haven't made resolutions maybe it's because we're all either expecting the worst, or at best, we're keeping our expectations realistic. My goal is simply to survive 2025.
Does anyone ‘live large’ anymore? Let alone, retain any trace of the innocent idealism they lived in the ‘high school lives’? I just noticed this - People seem either beaten down or accepted the limited scope of their appeal & influence.
I never made a new year resolution my whole life. It's setting yourself up to fuck it. If you want to change, do now. Do it when you thought of it. Anything else is a self deception indeed. If you wait for new year, you're kidding yourself.
The greatest self-deception is to believe one is free of self-deceptions, and I am the cleverest person because I realised this and picked the self-deception of thinking I was the only person to realise the thing about self-deceptions. I call this philosophy "Nietzche debugged".
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You have an amazing team and so many have been inspired and trained by you. So I guess that there is no shortage of rigorously trained successors.
Thanks for all you do.
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