/** I’ve always heard conflicting answers to the question “Do people change?”. Not “Can people change?” where of course the answer is yes, but at a high-level do people change. Either yes, or no, or yes if, or not really, or sometimes, or whatever other answer, usually reflecting upon that person’s unique set of experiences they’ve encountered with people and change in their lives.
This is on the same level as self-renewal or self-development or growth, sure, but more philosophical. Changing of character or beliefs or opinions or behavior…or identity and character (and personality?).
I bring this up because I came across this clip linked here (watch for about a minute) of a well-known rap artist Future talking about changing one’s self. Never heard it phrased like this and thought it was interesting.
Specifically I feel that most people understand they can change how they dress, how they talk, how they act, etc…(if there is enough intent/desire to), to REALLY have a clean slate, but it often is within closer reach than I’d think the average person would think. Some aversion to change may come from thinking
Well, I have done these set of things…and have this type of identity or character…I might as well keep “compounding” it and build off of the history of it RATHER than pivoting
My point is pivoting is not always bad. Now don’t throw away or disregard that which is valuable/useful/positive just for the sake of change but I think the ability to change is likely easier than everyone thinks (yes I’m using an absolute). Still thinking about this myself.
tl;dr it is easier to change one’s self than one would think and humans can be rather multi-variate and malleable
Cheers,
Vish
Published on January 14, 2023.