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GQ:
I wanted to ask you about the “fresh start effect” this idea that we’re better at changing our behavior when we begin a new “chapter,” say after a move or a new job because coming out of the pandemic strikes me as a fresh start in some ways. You talk about a fresh start being good for kick starting new habits, but potentially disruptive to habits you’ve already established and don’t want to break. What advice do you have for people who have created new routines they don’t want to lose post-pandemic?
Katy Milkan: So the first thing is awareness. This has been a grand experiment that seems like a heartless way to describe something that s been so awful, but it has been, in a sense. We had to try things we never would have tried: Zoom meetings, different ways of getting our physical activity in, interacting differently with our children or our partners. So that has hopefully taught us things that we like better that we never would have discovered, and probably also