This is why you keep failing at changing your life

Sean Knight
4 min readAug 25, 2021

Personal change has two parts, but we only pay attention to one

Photo by Ross Findon on Unsplash

Originally published on my personal blog as Why people fail at making big life changes.

Behavior vs Evaluation

Let’s say you want to change something about yourself. You want to lose some weight, get better at chess, or be less anxious in social…