Change is hard because it is, at its root, a kind of death—a shedding of the familiar self, a disintegration of the known narrative. You see, the human psyche is a masterwork of pattern and preservation. It constructs a reality from the fragments of past experiences and then becomes attached, even addicted, to that architecture of self and world. Change, then, threatens the very foundation of identity. It is not merely the adoption of a new behavior or idea; it is the dissolution of the old paradigm.

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