Another one from Seth
If you're doing something important, you're working to make change happen.
But change is difficult, often impossible. Are you trying to change your employees? A entire market? The attitude of a user?
The more clear you can be about the specific change you're hoping for (and why the people you're trying to change will respond to your actions) the more likely it is you'll actually achieve it.
Here are two tempting dead ends:
a. Try to change people who are easy to change, because they show up for clickbait, easy come ons, get rich quick schemes, fringe candidates... the problem is that they're not worth changing.
b. Try to change people who aren't going to change, no matter what. The problem is that while they represent a big chunk of humanity, they're merely going to waste your time.
But change is difficult, often impossible. Are you trying to change your employees? A entire market? The attitude of a user?
The more clear you can be about the specific change you're hoping for (and why the people you're trying to change will respond to your actions) the more likely it is you'll actually achieve it.
Here are two tempting dead ends:
a. Try to change people who are easy to change, because they show up for clickbait, easy come ons, get rich quick schemes, fringe candidates... the problem is that they're not worth changing.
b. Try to change people who aren't going to change, no matter what. The problem is that while they represent a big chunk of humanity, they're merely going to waste your time.
I loved this post, Smitha. You make a good point -- many people (the masses) want to bring about change but they are often going by vague ideas and ambitions and do not end up changing things the way they should, or it's not efficient. Being clear and determined is the biggest thing one can do to influence change. Persistence is a virtue in all walks of life, I believe ... -Nakul
ReplyDeleteHey Nakul, Fancy hearing from you after so long.....Nice.
ReplyDeleteAnd Yes, I can't agree more on how critical clarity is to change, totally with you on that.
Unfortunately, clarity also has perspectives... and aligning everybody to see the change from your perspective so they have the same clarity is a challenge. A recent incident at home where I kept asking my daughter to switch on the phone switch since it was not charging (cos I couldn't see the light) and my son intervening with "she has done it. It is on. I can see the light". Perspective... literally... so imagine the non literal ones that many do not even articulate.
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