The Hidden Cost of Staying the Same
Most people don’t resist change because they can’t do it. They resist change because they don’t recognise they’re addicted to staying the same. The brain wires itself for repetition, familiarity and emotional survival not truth, freedom or joy. So even when we say, “I want to be better,” our choices reflect something older, deeper and often unconscious.
The question is not “Why haven’t you changed yet?” the real question is, “What part of you benefits from not changing?”
Why People Resist Change (Even When They Say They Want It)
Some people are attached to their pain because it’s predictable. Others fear change because it threatens the emotional identity they’ve spent years defending. Still others have simply repeated the same choices for so long that their body has become addicted to the emotions of anxiety, rejection, disappointment or failure.
