Why Should We Embrace Change?

If I were to ask you if people like change, your knee-jerk response would likely be no. However, the reality is that humans actually crave change. Take vacations, for example, or the lack of vacations due to COVID-19. We crave travel because we want a change from our usual surroundings, and new experiences.

Yet, keep in mind that travel is change by choice, which is why we are comfortable with it. The fact that we cannot travel freely during the pandemic, or that if we travel by choice, it will come with personal PPE and social distancing, is the change we are averse to. It is uncomfortable because it affects you personally, and you did not see it coming, much like the pandemic itself. But what if I told you that many unpredictable changes to come as a result of COVID-19 are not going to be seemingly “out of nowhere” and are actually quite visible right now?

We tend to be agile and reactionary, especially in times like these. However, going forward into the post-pandemic new normal, now is the time to become more anticipatory in terms of change, so you can see it coming and leverage it as an opportunity for growth, rather than a crisis to be managed.

The Shift to Anticipation

We all face two types of changes that permit us to see the future accurately, and those are cyclical and linear changes.