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Why Change Is So Darn Hard

CJ Westerberg, April 26, 2013 9:53 AM

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Classic from The Daily Riff

Radish or cookie?
Video Below

Author Dan Heath contends that people who avoid change may be perceived as lazy, when it is really is -----, as explained in this video below.
Won't be a spoiler on this one.

I see it from a different angle than Heath's. . . . how change-makers may be perceived as having a lack of self-control by those who persist with the old rules regardless of new contexts. You know - those "creative" types . . .

 What do you think?

- C.J. Westerberg


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Now, keeping in mind these fourfold interests - interest in conversation, or communication; in inquiry, or finding out things; in making things or construction; and in artistic expression - we may say they are natural resources, the uninvested capital, upon the exercise of which depends the active growth of the child..
John Dewey, The School and Society, 1900
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