Sticking to the straight and narrow

Book review of How to Change: The Science of Getting From Where You Are to Where You Want To Be

If you have lived around Delhi University, or any other top-notch campus in your youth, you would be familiar with the scene—thousands of students studying long hours to crack the civil service exam. It’s a bleak life—one monotonous day after another of studying in the library during the daytime, followed by more hours of solitary cramming in the hostel room at night. If you fail to crack the exam this year, then another dreary year of the same routine awaits. Many students are simply unable to put up with this monk-like existence and go off-track. Reading Wharton professor Katy Milkman’s