Everybody looking forward to tomorrow?
Well, holster your excitement for just a second. Apparently, the third Monday of January is the ‘most depressing day of the year’, according to psychologist Cliff Arnall.
Arnall designed a formula that involved depressing words like ‘debt’ and ‘failure of an attempt to give something up’, threw in ‘motivational level times need to take action’ into the equation and came to the conclusion that tomorrow is the most depressing day of each year.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, this equation is utterly derided by most scientists as pseudoscience, largely because it is intuitively obvious that there is simply no way to commensurate thing like ‘motivational levels’ with ‘debt’.
Go ahead, try to subtract your current level of debt by how motivated you feel right now? Can you do it?
We didn’t think so. Tomorrow isn’t the most depressing day of the year, just another manic Monday. Hit it, The Bangles.
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