Life is Change

Notes

Claim

If there's one thing we can know in life for certain, is that change is an inseparable, integral part of life. To live as flow is to understand that nothing can be fixed, not our environment, nor our identity, not the society we live in. Everything and everyone can and will change.

Explanation

We are ever changed by other people Identity is shaped by and shapes our social interactions, by experiences in life Identity persists across time through psychological continuity. The only way to stop changing is to stop experiencing, which is synonymous with Mortality shapes meaning and motivates acceptance.

Similarly, even the change itself is Progress and change follow non-linear trajectories with thresholds and often sudden, it can't be predicted, other than the fact that it is certain. It is to embrace the fact that Uncertainty creates anxiety when knowledge and control are incomplete is built-in in this life, as

Why it Matters

We can either try to resist it or deny it, both will cause us to be crushed by the great flow of life Life is pain. The only other viable option is to adapt with it, to Accept that change is inevitable, yet to direct the way we change with time, to use those experiences to become who we want to be Post Traumatic Growth.

Examples

Every experience shows this in miniature — a moment can't be relived, only remembered, since by the time we notice it, both it and we have already moved on.

Supporters

Opposers

In essence this defeats the notion of a Fixed mindset assumes capabilities are unchangeable from birth, because even if we tried we can't stay fixed.

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