Getting Unstuck Using Any Five Things
So the behavior change folks tell us it's easy! Change is easy if you give it the right conditions. And the right conditions aren't so hard to cultivate, you only need to change any five things in your life to unglue stuckness; that's the word from the work of Robert Kegan, researcher and expert in the world of adult learning. Changes seem to propel development if they involve a number of different development areas including both internal and external shifts. For example, beginning a consciousness practice is an internal process. Going for daily walks is an external process. It would be more likely to create developmental movement to simultaneously take up new internal and external practices in a selection of developmental areas, called lines. Music, cooking, physical fitness, story telling, travel, languages, haunting used clothing stores, represent different kinds of growth lines. So now think of a list of five changes, new areas of growth, you could make. Do you nee...