Mitch in Brooklyn, NY, 2021. Photo by Ebru Yildiz.

What Do You Want?

Instead of making resolutions, this new year’s tell yourself the truth

Mitch Horowitz
3 min readDec 31, 2021

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This article is adapted from the forthcoming second edition of my book The Miracle Month.

On the eve of the new year, I am reminded of one of my favorite quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche: “Formula for our happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.”

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Mitch Horowitz

"Treats esoteric ideas & movements with an even-handed intellectual studiousness"-Washington Post | PEN Award-winning historian | Censored in China