The HBS hosts talk about resolutions and the resolve behind them.
It is close to the start of a new year and at this time resolutions are in the air. But what is it to make a resolution? And if you make a resolution, do you have to also have the resolve to carry it through? And what is resolve? In this episode, let’s talk about resolutions and resolve.
- The Sezerac Bar in New Orleans
- The film Jean of the Joneses
- Oscar Wilde quote on resolutions from The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Samuel Beckett, “Fail better” from Worstward Ho
- Jerry Seinfeld on reservations
- Conatus in Spinoza’s Ethics
- Angela Lee Duckworth on grit
- Robin James, Resilience and Melancholy
- Our episode from season 2 on The Hustle
- Our episode on Work
- Alphono Lingis, The First Person Singular
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
