![]() ![]() Enter (or rather, re-enter) Flow, which was my word for 2020 (that didn’t exactly work out). Growth made me feel a little stressy, like I needed to sign up for classes Right Now-which would equate to procrastinating on a lot of life and work and play. Strong resonated, but felt sort of harsh and pushy in a way I didn’t really want every facet of my life to be. But, after a whole lot of reflection and pondering, this is the word that feels right for 2023. I had a few other ideas in mind: First, it was going to be ‘slow.’ Then, ‘strong.’ Then, ‘growth.’ But slow, while it is something I want to try to do more of, felt like it was at odds with who I am as a very impatient get-shit-done human, but also from an athletic standpoint. There is something very meta about setting an intention for the year to… be more intentional. Here at the Post, we wish you good luck with whatever resolutions you’ve made for the coming year.Oof. But a successful new year’s resolution, as most know, doesn’t aim vaguely at some large, ultimate goal, but focuses on the smaller, constituent actions one needs to achieve it: Not “I’ll save $1,000,” but “I’ll put away $20 a month.” Not “I’ll lose 40 pounds,” but “I’ll limit myself to one pizza per week and hit the gym three days a week.” It probably comes from the idea of being resolute - of choosing a personal problem and making a promise to find its solution. And in digital imagery, resolution is the measure of individual dots of color (pixels, ink) used to create an image, but it’s used practically as a measurement for how clear and detailed the image as a whole is.īut this is a new year, so what about New Year’s resolutions? That phrase started appearing in the late-18th or early-19th centuries. ![]() In music, chord resolution is the passing from a dissonant to a consonant chord - the resolution is determined by the movement of the constituent notes, but it’s the chords that resolve. (This is in part because the related word dissolve covers a lot of the same old ground.) In literature, the resolution is when all the individual threads of a story come together and work themselves out. Over the last several centuries, new meanings of resolution have retained some reference to the small, constituent parts but have focused more on bringing together the whole rather than breaking it apart. ![]() Thus we get the legal sense of a resolution, which could then be debated, voted upon, and passed into law. For larger community problems, possible resolutions were written down and discussed in local councils. But in other areas, resolution stuck around, and new meanings piled on.Įxtending the idea further, someone who seemed to have solved all their problems, showing little doubt in their decisions, was considered resolute. In math, resolving a problem to discover its resolution eventually gave way to the more common solving of a problem to find a solution. Then it extended into other situations - such as resolving conflicts or disagreements, almost as if they were equations. In the mid-16th century, mathematicians began resolving complex mathematical problems. It’s this concept that mathematicians took hold of when they found a use for resolution to describe taking apart complex systems and breaking them down into numbers and figures. When you break down something into its individual parts, it can help you better understand the whole. For example, in Hamlet, written in 1599 or 1600, we find the mopey prince mumbling, “O that this too too solid flesh would melt, / Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!” We find this definition in common use during Shakespeare’s time. ![]()
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