Barriers to change LO28019

From: Jan Lelie (janlelie@wxs.nl)
Date: 03/20/02


Replying to LO27994 --

Hello Ross, dera folLOwers of fashion,

"Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose", Alphonse Karr.

Never underestimate the force of habits, i've been told. And also
(not)changing is a kind of habit. Consider a metaphore. We live, we are
our habits, we're wired that way, we're running like a self-programmed
programm that feels as if it has been programmed, created by somebody
else. Strange LOop. We, our different programms are playing against each
other, with the result that the programms, us, somebody elses programm
will improve - in playing against each other. This is called improvement
too. In the end, we all will get stuck in a groove, a series of repeated
actions, an addiction-loop. The addiction-loop (shifting the blame,
shifting the burden) is the most simple loop there is, the ultimate
asttractor. That's perhaps why our programm has been equiped, has
developed a kind of "an-addiction-is-not-that-bad-loop". It repeats that
we can step out of our addiction when we want to. The only choice we have
is to choose the addiction. When i read what i wrote years ago, i do not
see much change there either. Addicted to dictation.

Kind regards,

Hope it helped.

Peace,

Jan

"Wirth, Ross" wrote:

> Recently, I have been thinking about all the situations where individuals
> need to change, admit they need to change, yet don't change. Is there
> anything we can learn from addictive behaviors where individuals continue
> to knowingly pursue destructive behaviors? Or maybe the psychology of
> habits and the actions needed to discard bad habits while adopting better,
> self-improving behaviors.
>
> Just some things I have been thinking about. I would appreciate any
> thoughts and references that might address this barrier to change.

-- 
With kind regards - met vriendelijke groeten,

Jan Lelie

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