{"id":2052,"date":"2015-11-09T01:01:11","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T06:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2052"},"modified":"2015-10-31T08:09:44","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T13:09:44","slug":"change-and-why-those-other-guys-just-dont-get-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2015\/11\/change-and-why-those-other-guys-just-dont-get-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Change and Why Those Other Guys Just Don&#8217;t Get It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why don&#8217;t those other guys see what is so obvious to us? Because they didn&#8217;t have the same experience we did, and we don&#8217;t want to do the work required.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We go through a changing experience, i.e., an experience that changes our concept of something. (I use the word &#8220;we&#8221; because it is always &#8220;we&#8221; who are on the forefront of something important while it is always &#8220;they&#8221; who lag behind for obvious reasons.)<\/p>\n<p>We want them to change their concept to agree with our new concept. No matter how hard we try, they don&#8217;t change like we changed.<\/p>\n<p>What is wrong with them?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Simple: They didn&#8217;t have the changing experience we did.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is most often found when a small group of people spend time considering a situation. Through time, this small group comes to a new conclusion. The small group returns to a larger group and shouts, &#8220;Hey! Look at this. Let&#8217;s go!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The larger group stands back and shrugs. The small group ponders the dimwitted people in the larger group.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s review what has happened in small steps:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>small group<\/li>\n<li>lots of time<\/li>\n<li>lots of discussion<\/li>\n<li>change<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And then let&#8217;s consider &#8220;them:&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>larger group<\/li>\n<li>almost no time<\/li>\n<li>almost no discussion<\/li>\n<li>no change<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How can we expect them to see our new concept when they didn&#8217;t have the same experience? Somehow, we do, and we are greatly disappointed in &#8220;them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So what do we do? How do we have them see the new reality as we see it? The answer is not nice as it involves time and hard work.<\/p>\n<p>1. realize what has happened (the most difficult step)<\/p>\n<p>2. find a way to recreate the changing experience with the larger group<\/p>\n<p>3. perform that changing experience with the larger group<\/p>\n<p>4. maintain the energy to do all this hard work (and it is hard work and maintaining that energy is the second most difficult step)<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps, just perhaps, they\u2014those people in the larger group\u2014will finally understand what we understand. Then again, perhaps we will conclude that the new understanding isn&#8217;t worth all that work and time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Why don&#8217;t those other guys see what is so obvious to us? Because they didn&#8217;t have the same experience we did, and we don&#8217;t want to do the work required. We go through a changing experience, i.e., an experience that changes our concept of something. (I use the word &#8220;we&#8221; because it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,21],"tags":[120,143],"class_list":["post-2052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adults","category-change","tag-adults","tag-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2053,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions\/2053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}