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Restoring Sanity
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Restoring Sanity

by Margaret J. Wheatley
March 2024
Beginner to intermediate
176 pages
2h 51m
English
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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9 How Do We Humans Change?

How do we humans change? Lately we seem very confused. We assume we have to learn about something and become good at it before we practice it, that we have to change ourselves before we set out to change anything. But this is not how change happens.

We change from acting and learning from our actions. We act, learn, and discover what works. Most of us know this is the best process, but we don’t do it. We have no time to learn—we just keep digging ourselves deeper into the hole of ignorance and failure.

Direct experience, trying things, is how we develop confidence in our choice of actions. Everything else—beliefs, opinions, theories, practices—came to us from another source. They were told to us and we believed them. ...

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