Exactly 95 years ago, the grand modernist writer Virginia Woolf wrote this in her diary:

January 2, 1931: Here are my resolutions for the next 3 months; the next lap of the year. To have none. Not to be tied. To be free & kindly with myself.

In some sense, it is silly to take self-help advice from a writer, even if she revolutionized the 20th-century novel. Woolf was undoubtedly a great artist, but she also struggled with bipolar disorder, and in a bit over 10 years after this diary entry, she took her own life.

Nonetheless, recent psychological research has confirmed Woolf's take on this topic. New Year's resolutions, like all........

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