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[unknownrival]

Do you have a New Year's resolution? If so, is it any better than these people's?

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permatext

[structuraldefect]

Why would you make one?

permatext

[unknownrival]

The desire for self-improvement.

[structuraldefect]

Understandable. Would you have one, then?

[unknownrival]

I want to practice more self-control, but a concrete goal is more likely to actually be carried out.

[structuraldefect]

I suppose. But a more challenging goal may be more rewarding.

[unknownrival]

The idea then is to find a challenging goal that I can know how to achieve. Something like "practice self-control" is vague and hard to quantify. When a writer wants to write more, they challenge themselves to write a certain number of words a day, and at the end of the day they know if they have or have not lived up to what they set out to do.

[structuraldefect]

Then is it not possible to find a way to quantify self-control? Small weaknesses, as opposed to the nebulous kind. Refusing an extra slice of cake, for an example.

[unknownrival]

That is a good point. If food were my vice, then I could go about it that way. Unfortunately it's anger.

[structuraldefect]

Is it?

Well, then, surely there must be some exercises that work with anger. I've heard of counting to ten before shouting.

[unknownrival]

There's that. I'll look some up later.

Thank you.

[structuraldefect]

If you like.

You're welcome.

[unknownrival]

What's your name?

[structuraldefect]

Kotomine.

And you are?

[unknownrival]

Issei.

[Welp better keep answers limited while not drawing suspicion... he knows he should watch himself.]

[structuraldefect]

Is your new year going well, Issei?

[unknownrival]

There's not much of it so far. But yes.

[structuraldefect]

Perhaps that bodes well for your resolution.

[unknownrival]

I certainly hope so.

[structuraldefect]

There's little else one can do.

[unknownrival]

Indeed, there's not.