Slow Change Can Be Radical Change
there is one thing we can draw from where we are now and where we were then, it is that the unimaginable is ordinary, that the way forward is almost never a straight line you can glance down but a convoluted path of surprises, gifts, and afflictions you prepare for by accepting your blind spots as well as your intuitions.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
major change can only happen on a minor scale.
Brianna Wiest • 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
We should resist the petulant desire to want to change everything right now, no matter how urgent we believe the situation is…People change slowly, and to to accelerate their development unnaturally — or through radical change without their consent — is counterproductive and dangerous.
Andrew Sweeny • GAME B
Change takes time and it usually happens fitfully — nothing, slowly, nothing, slowly, nothing, nothing, and then boom: Change. If there was an emoji formula for change, it would be: Δ =….💧..💧..💧.💧💧💧..💦 ..🌊
John Borthwick • Building bicycles for our minds
although people usually overestimate how much will change quickly, we almost always underestimate how much can change over decades. One of the reasons is that big changes require many small things to shift in tandem, including how we think. That takes time. But once those changes have happened, the world really does look radically different.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
