There’s a depressing Catch-22 baked into all of this too. The moments when change feels most necessary are exactly the moments when people cling hardest to what they know.

“Thinking about how to improve things is a luxury that we can only really have as a society when we’re feeling like things are pretty good… When there’s a lot of discord, when there’s a lot of uncertainty, when there’s a lot of insecurity or threat, it’s difficult for people to think about alternatives.” … Change has always managed to fight its way through, often by working with system justification rather than against it. That means the most effective reformers throughout history have rarely positioned themselves as revolutionaries tearing things down – they’ve framed change as the system finally living up to its own stated ideals.

Source: Dense Discovery #383: Why we defend what’s failing us

This was a much needed reminder. The fam is thinking of making major changes in our own life - changes that are necessary to not be stuck in our local optimum. Of course that also means that there are minimums we will hit. So, when the world looks shaky, like it’s about to embark on its own decade of change in a year, of course there’s an impetus to revert back to the mean.

I need to keep in mind that the change is necessary. We don’t need the luxury of everything being perfect to undergo the change. In fact, life’s NEVER perfect.

Onward, to adventure.