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If You Start at Anything, You’ll Be Better Prepared for Everything
Why overcoming inertia is one of life’s biggest challenges
Let me take a second to guess something about you personally:
You’ve fallen victim to the fear of change.
It wasn’t really a guess, I know this about you because you’re human.
The fear of change is a psychological trick that helps keep us safe. If the status quo is that you’re not in any immediate danger but then something changes, you might die.
It sounds like I’m exaggerating, but if you really pay attention to the internal dialogue surrounding your fears, you’ll realize how often they reach a climax of “you might die.”
What will happen if I start looking for another job, you ask yourself. Maybe your boss will find out and be upset. Maybe you’ll get fired. Maybe you won’t be able to find another job. Maybe you won’t be able to put food on the table and will starve.
It sounds ridiculous, but I promise you that you’re guilty of this exact same sort of logic far more often than you might be consciously aware of.
This kind of thinking might have made sense when you lived in a time and place where there was a real chance that you would starve to death — or maybe…
