"As I write this, it is the second week in January. By now, many people have reneged on their New Year's resolutions. If not yet, they may do so soon, as 23% of people quit their resolutions by the end of the first week of January, and only 9% of resolution-makers complete them by the end of the year (1)."
"Excellence is difficult. For example, it is easier to be impatient than patient. It is easier to be unjust than just when justice means advocating for others or challenging systems. It is easier to retreat from arduous goals - like giant race objectives or complex work projects - than to see them through to completion. It is easier to be lazy than diligent, irresolute than perseverant, fickle than stalwart. Virtue is hard."
Many people abandon New Year's resolutions; 23% quit within the first week and only 9% complete resolutions by year-end. Self-reflection at the new year can prompt genuine improvement and reveal personal shortcomings when resolutions fail. Excellence is difficult and everyday virtues require persistent effort: patience, justice, perseverance, diligence, and steadfastness are harder than their opposites. Running and reading act as sources of edification and laboratories for moral cultivation, helping individuals to see themselves and others more honestly. Four classical books are recommended for runners and for general moral reflection. The Great Texts raise perennial questions about what it means to be human.
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