Yes, It's a New Year, But Is It Really A New You?

As I understand it from the various internet places I scour, the conventional wisdom is that the “new year, new you” ideology is intensely wrong and fundamentally woe-begotten.

Is this a reaction to the flood of ambition that erupts as soon as the ball drops on New Year’s? PERHAPS.

Is it a move to worship at the altar of inertia—i.e., how I am is how I w…