The Great Lock In: The TikTok trend helping some young people salvage their 2025

"The Great Lock In" is a TikTok trend where users set and pursue self-improvement goals from September to December. Participants aim to achieve results within this focused time frame. One of them is NTU student Rifah Tashfiah Mazumder. The 22-year-old’s resolutions for 2025 - namely eating clean, bucking up on her academics and hitting the gym more often - fell flat after she took multiple holidays during the May to July university summer break. She suffered from jet lag and illness, leading to her falling behind on schoolwork when classes resumed. Assoc Prof Ma Xiangyu of NTU’s Sociology department noted that habits are rarely changed according to an arbitrarily defined timeline. Habits are more likely to be profoundly influenced by seminal events, such as one’s first break-up, front-line grief, a medical setback or personal failure, he added.

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