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On the first of every year, millions of Americans make a New Year’s resolution (or two or three) that they won’t keep. Why we keep making resolutions—and why they're so hard to follow. 每一年的开始，数百万美国人制定的新年计划（2个或者3个）都没能坚持下去。为什么我们一直下决心？然而为什么坚持下去是如此艰难？ There's one obvious reason why most resolutions fail: We usually focus on goals or tasks that we haven’t been able to achieve over the past year. “You are making it your New Year’s goal because you keep failing at it,” says Tim Pychyl, a psychologist at Carleton University in Ottawa. The other terrible thing about New Year’s resolutions, he says, is that making them requires no action. The simple thought—the idea that we intend to lose weight or exercise more— just thinking about losing weight makes us feel good, and we don’t actually have to go out and do the tasks necessary to achieve that goal. 大部分新年决心失败的一个最主要的原因是,我们下决心的时候往往总是关注的是那个我们在过去一年里没法做到的目标。“你下决心要完成这件事，是因为总是在这件事上失败。”渥太华卡尔顿大学心理学家 Tim Pychyl 说道。“另一个可怕的事情是，下一个新年决定不需要任何实际行动。一个简单的想法，我们想要减肥或者多运动，我们光想想减肥就已经自我感觉良好了，所以事实上我们没有必要出去做一些事情去实现它。” | 
