Reading Resolution for the New Year?

Try Formulating a SMARTER Goal Instead. Plus: Which Works Better, Habit or Achievement Goals?

Last year the podcaster and Arizona Republic columnist Jon Gabriel decided to read some classics. What for? His kids were reading them for school—something he actively avoided as a student. But now he had a compelling reason. “If my kids mastered the classics, they would be smarter than me,” he said, horrified. “I couldn’t let that happen.”

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