New Year's Resolution

I've decided to take an unconventional approach to my New Year's Resolution this year. I started by Instagram off my phone and buying the domain arlenfan.com.

To-do list:
Learn and play Beethoven's Tempest Sonata 3rd mvt
Write and defend my dissertation proposal
Publish one journal or conference paper
250 lb squat for 1 rep
185 lb bench press for 3 reps
swim a sub minute 100 breast short course yards

Reading List: In addition to my weekly reading of the Economist, a magazine I have read since 2017, I would also like to read these books. This list was largely inspired by a rekindled interest in history after reading Henry Kissinger's book "World Order." I would like to note that I read an abridged version of The Count of Monte Cristo in the summer of 2010.

On China - Henry Kissinger
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
Douglas MacArthur: American Warrior - Arthur L. Herman
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari
Homo Deus - Yuval Noah Harari
A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
Dead Wake - Erik Larson
Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare
Conquest of Gaul - Caesar
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Gulag Archipelago - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
The Audacity of Hope - Barack Obama