
Why Change Shouldn’t Surprise Us

Change is inevitable; your job as an observer is to find out where and how it will occur. The answers to that question can often be surprising.
Christian Madsbjerg • Look
we often prefer the ease of hanging on to old views over the difficulty of grappling with new ones. Yet there are also deeper forces behind our resistance to rethinking. Questioning ourselves makes the world more unpredictable. It requires us to admit that the facts may have changed, that what was once right may now be wrong. Reconsidering somethin... See more
Adam Grant • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
Control is why brains are on constant alert for the unexpected. Unexpected change is a portal through which danger arrives to swipe at our throats. Paradoxically, however, change is also an opportunity. It’s the crack in the universe through which the future arrives. Change is hope. Change is promise. It’s our winding path to a more successful tomo
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