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!
