(Rule number one: when you’re in transition, you find yourself coming back in new ways to old activities.)

Changes today are faster, simultaneous, and more complex. Acceleration is overriding our natural capacity to assimilate changes and therefore throws us into transition. Long-term stability is a dream.

Transitions is not simply a manual on how to cope; rather, it is based on a theory of personal development that views transition as the natural process of disorientation and reorientation marking the turning points in the path of growth. Throughout nature, growth involves periodic accelerations and transformations: things go slowly for a time and n

Because those three phases are going to be so critical to what we are discussing, let me reiterate: all transitions are composed of (1) an ending, (2) a neutral zone, and (3) a new beginning.

It is not those events but rather the inner reorientation and self-redefinition that you have to go through in order to incorporate any of those changes into your life. Without a transition, a change is just a rearrangement of the furniture. Unless transition happens, the change won’t work, because it doesn’t take. Whatever word we use, our society

In other words, change is situational. Transition, on the other hand, is psychological.

You might be in the process of ending something, feeling the disorienting experience of something familiar changing, leaving, dying.

The magic is in how William Bridges changes the conversation, from being about the tactics of change to being about the journey of transformation.

“Every complex problem has a solution which is simple, direct, plausible—and wrong.” Change is the epitome of the complex problem.