How Sociopathic Nerds Plot Out New Years Goals

Malcolm and Simone explain their system for New Year's resolutions using categories tied to biology (health/family), career (income streams), and mission (purpose/impact). They track past goals in a spreadsheet, highlight achievements, and set 1, 5, 10 year timelines. They share real examples like scheduling health scans, working on awareness campaigns, and Simone running for office. The key is choosing projects with upside potential where you can make an outsized impact over time.

Simone Collins: [00:00:00] Well, we put them in a spreadsheet and we, at the end of the year, highlight in green, orange, or red, the parts of each goal that we've either achieved or kind of achieved or not at all achieved. So it's really helpful to go back in time and sort of see where you are.

Shooting a little too high or going a little too easy on yourself. So we've, we've

Malcolm Collins: done very well in the biology category this year, and we've done very well in the mission category this year, last year,

Simone Collins: last year, last year, and then we did abysmally in the career category,

Would you like to know more?

Malcolm Collins: Hello, Simone. It is wonderful to be here with you today. I am very excited. So a lot of people would be surprised. In the book, we said that we'd plan to have Future Day on New Year's Eve. Like, why haven't we done it? Or you see more Future Day stuff. It's because we actually decided to, this is the first year we're doing a full test run of this, you know, with all the decorations and [00:01:00] everything, and the kids being old enough to remember it, to push it back into later in January.

Making a whole

Simone Collins: month thing. I mean, like Christmas. Basically, it's a whole month thing. You know, you get the decorations for a whole month or if not more, right? If this is our most important and favorite holiday, then it deserves some time.

Malcolm Collins: Yeah. So we wanted to give it a bit more time, but I think talking more about traditional new year's type things, traditional new year's resolutions and just sort of the way that we personally keep track of if we are where we want to be in life, because I think it's.

And it is highly efficacious, and it's something that I was taught to do from a young age. And I think that you developed a very similar system completely in parallel to me. And it's played a large part in us being able to get to where we are in life.

Simone Collins: Yeah, no, we've both been very systematic.

Malcolm Collins: Yeah, we'll also go over our own New Year's resolutions this year, while checking in on where we were last year.[00:02:00]

So, the key to doing this, the key to handling New Year's resolutions, is to divide them into categories. And these categories are tied to well, I could just go through the three big categories we have of resolutions, which helps us think, you know, in a one year time frame, a five year time frame in a 10 year time frame where we want to be with each of these issues.

Okay, 1 is what we call biology. This category is tied to our biological success. So this is health, this is relationships, and this is children. So the biology category, if you are in high school, for example, is likely going to be learning to date. Learning to interact with other people in a way that's going to be useful to you when you are looking for a spouse.

And, and some level of health, but, like, you really don't need to go [00:03:00] overboard with the health aspect of this when you are young, so long as you aren't, like, addicted to something.

Simone Collins: I don't know. Like when I was young, obviously I was starving myself to the point of like, Oh, she's probably going to die.

So like my early biological goals and my spreadsheet, which I can see, cause I've been keeping track of this in a spreadsheet we're like, you know, maintain this healthy weight range. Please don't die. That kind of thing. And so there's, you know, it could be like if you have, you know, are trying, like you're a wrestler and you're trying to get into certain like weight classes or, you know, you're trying to be able to lift a certain amount of weight.

Those are all very common. And I think this is among the most like mainstream of goals to have biological goals. Like I want to weigh this amount. I want to be able to run a marathon. I want to be able to play with my kids without being in pain. That kind of thing.

Malcolm Collins: And keep in mind, a key thing about your biological goals is every biological goal that you have should have some level of utility and not be a vanity goal.

So, when it comes to something like weight ranges, this can be very useful [00:04:00] for partner attraction, and this can be very useful for Long term health, you know, being able to achieve other goals. This is less true when it comes to something like, I want to work out more or something like that. Right?

Like there is a level of exercise.

Simone Collins: That's not like super measurable, right? So it's not perfect either. Well,

Malcolm Collins: it is to some extent, but like, like the, the, the, the level to which a person is. working out. For example, there is some level of muscle, which is of utility in terms of attracting the partner, but it is a fairly low amount.

Like as soon as you get above a fairly low threshold, at that point, you're really only getting an advantage with people with a specific fetish around this. Or at least a, a discernible advantage when compared to other tasks, which move you further towards your actual life goals,

Simone Collins: weightlifting or any other exercise for.

Health and longevity, like there are diminishing marginal returns and sometimes even growing liabilities after certain levels of excess.

Malcolm Collins: But it also helps you with ideas like I want to have sex with this many [00:05:00] people. Like if you're a young person, you might think that could be a goal within this category, and that is likely not going to be of significant utility to you in finding a partner and may even decrease your possibility of securing a good partner.

So everything you do as a youth in terms of this, this category of the goal should be in terms of, of, of training and approving, improving your quality on the marriage market and improving your ability to navigate the market of long term partners. So that's how we look at that. Now do you want to go over our goals this past year around health?

Simone Collins: Sure.

Malcolm Collins: Yeah. I mean, we'll go too deep, but I can, I can give you some examples here. So we had a kid, you know, we're be trying for another kid soon. But other ways you can, you can organize these goals is I want to get this many embryos extracted by this date. Yeah. Like

Simone Collins: definitely our past goals have been like bank this many embryos while we're this age that we can have the number of kids that we want to be able to have this year though.

It's not just that it's, I mean, obviously it's [00:06:00] like have our fourth child. You know, safely and, you know, successfully, which involves investing and, you know, not doing unhealthy stuff right now and then investing in a newborn properly, but we're also planning on, we're turning to getting CT scans every other year we work with the company Ezra.

They are great. We know the founder and they basically. Do so much more than like your typical general practitioner is going to do

Malcolm Collins: to do this company. If you're