Can You Change Your Life in a Day? Dr B.S.Chakravarthy
Can You Change Your Life in a Day? Reflections after reading Dan Koe’s “How to Fix Your Entire Life in 1 Day” Dr. B. S. Chakravarthy Every New Year, millions of people perform a small ritual of hope. We buy a diary. We open to the first clean page. And we write down the person we intend to become. Lose weight. Exercise every day. Read more. Spend less. Learn something new. Be calmer. Wake up earlier. Spend less time on the phone. For a week or two, the new person appears. Then February arrives. The diary disappears into a drawer, the running shoes return to their corner, and the old life quietly resumes. We usually explain this with one word: Discipline. Perhaps we did not have enough of it. But I increasingly wonder whether discipline is really the central problem. Perhaps we were trying to change the behaviour without changing the person from whom that behaviour naturally arises. That was the thought that stayed wit...