Change is inevitable

There is a more powerful, diffused and dangerous fear than failure in our society, and it's the fear of change. It's a very human habit, because change is perceived as something that can “steal” what we have, what we achieved. Moreover, our brain, especially the left hemisphere, encourage routines to save energy. Just pay attention, for example, on the rituals that everyone has in the bathroom in the morning, or what we buy every week at the supermarket, or the route to the office that very often we drive automatically while we are thinking to something else.

Well, there is nothing bad in that. That's true, but habits are dangerous because they make lazy the rest of our brain. And we start to fear for every kind of changes, from the smallest to the biggest one.

There are some students that if they don't find free their usual seat in their classroom become nervous. There are workers that get angry if a new machinery (or a new software to elaborate data) is introduced to produce differently a good or a service, breaking previous rules. There is people that take to the streets to shout against gay marriage or the “sinful Western lifestyle”. What they have in common is fear of change, they feel threatened by innovations, by something unknown, sometimes they also refuse to watch the evidence because change requests an act of commitment, responsabilities, energy to understand and to learn.

But change is inevitable. British artist Charlie Jeffery designed it clearly in his artwork that lays on the external wall of a wool mill in Biella, in Italy, showing three eras of the continental drift with the claim “Change is inevitable”. And it's really significant that this work is on that wall. Because economy is the place where innovations are more rapid and they affect us all.

 We think that is better to accept changes (if they are really improving, of course), instead of fighting them.We know that it's not easy to do that. The only tip we have is to try to change starting from the most little things. For example, move from your usual seat at your kitchen table where you have dinner every day. Or change your furniture arrangement. It is not difficult and it will also help you to see your room from a different perspective. Think about how many problems could be solved adopting a different perception len, in your kitchen and, maybe, in the world.

Good change to everyone!