
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.*
George Bernard Shaw
If you’re having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn’t you. The problem is your system … You do not rise to the levels of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.**
James Clear
It’s not just about changing your mind,
New thoughts will need the support of new practices
or environments, and sometimes new people
or no people:
Because thinking, it turns out, is a social act,
and to think freely, to think differently,
to think independently, you sometimes need
to escape from the herd.^
We’re developing flexibility of mind and heart and activeness,
And becoming more human.
*Jonathan Hoban’s Walking With Your Wolf;
**James Clear’s Atomic Habits;
^Brian McLaren’s Faith After Doubt.