Finding bright spots eases path to change
Posted: August 24, 2011 at 4:35 a.m.
In their book, Switch, How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, Chip and Dan Heath use the example of a rider on an elephant following a path to describe how people resist or adapt to change. The rider is your brain, the elephant is your emotions, and the path is the new direction you want to follow.
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