Thursday, September 16, 2004
Not more rain
Well, there you go. I wake today and there's no rain. However, weather predicts that it will rain this afternoon. D'oh.
My landlord is selling the building. It's kinda wierd to live in a place that you don't own. Then other people trade ownership without your consent. Can I interview my new landlord please? This is a nice segeway into one of my theories of life (of which I have many, ask me sometime about the theory of eight). I'm going to call this one the Theory of Change. People love change, provided it costs little to nothing. For example, take the TV. All sorts of stimulus and things happening, causing the watcher to have a change in emotions. Or a softly changing skyscape, clouds drifting by making little cloud animals. However, if the change requires energy. No way. Slow down buster. A change in political or religious belief? Not going to thappen. A change in the amount of work it takes to do something? (provided it's not significantly less with no learning curve.) These kinds of changes are upsetting and enough to send protestors out to the streets.
So the theory can be summed up by:
Ease of change is inversely proportional to the inertia of what is being changed.
So change happens easier, if it's something that's easy to change. That may seem obvious, but how is it that around the world married couples are having knockdown arguements over simple changes, just because one partner has been doing it for years that way? In a way that invalidates my theory. That makes the "inertia of change" a subjective value. I'm willing to change what I eat, but not what I wear. Why is that? Ultimately, I think that inertia equals fear. This may be stretching the definition of fear, but take what I wear. I could change, but I'm worried that if I change it I'll look even worse. Fear. What about a work? People have a major fear of work. If I do something different I may have to work harder. No way man. You keep your change to yourself! I'm not working harder.
So now the theory is:
Ease of change is inversely proportional to fear.
Think about that the next time your presented an oppurtunity to change. Are you afraid to change?
My landlord is selling the building. It's kinda wierd to live in a place that you don't own. Then other people trade ownership without your consent. Can I interview my new landlord please? This is a nice segeway into one of my theories of life (of which I have many, ask me sometime about the theory of eight). I'm going to call this one the Theory of Change. People love change, provided it costs little to nothing. For example, take the TV. All sorts of stimulus and things happening, causing the watcher to have a change in emotions. Or a softly changing skyscape, clouds drifting by making little cloud animals. However, if the change requires energy. No way. Slow down buster. A change in political or religious belief? Not going to thappen. A change in the amount of work it takes to do something? (provided it's not significantly less with no learning curve.) These kinds of changes are upsetting and enough to send protestors out to the streets.
So the theory can be summed up by:
Ease of change is inversely proportional to the inertia of what is being changed.
So change happens easier, if it's something that's easy to change. That may seem obvious, but how is it that around the world married couples are having knockdown arguements over simple changes, just because one partner has been doing it for years that way? In a way that invalidates my theory. That makes the "inertia of change" a subjective value. I'm willing to change what I eat, but not what I wear. Why is that? Ultimately, I think that inertia equals fear. This may be stretching the definition of fear, but take what I wear. I could change, but I'm worried that if I change it I'll look even worse. Fear. What about a work? People have a major fear of work. If I do something different I may have to work harder. No way man. You keep your change to yourself! I'm not working harder.
So now the theory is:
Ease of change is inversely proportional to fear.
Think about that the next time your presented an oppurtunity to change. Are you afraid to change?
