#118 Resistant to Change

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People don’t like to change. They don’t want to change their religion, political party, or (in the case of adolescent males) their T-shirts. They’ll cling to their beliefs (or their ratty, stained eighties-vintage T-shirts) until their dying day.

Much of human history is really about the struggle to get people to change; whether it was the Conquistadors trying to get the natives of the Americas to change from being gold hoarders to being dead people, the American Revolutionaries trying to get the British to change from being soldiers to being dead people, or the owners of the Titanic trying to get people to change from being passengers to being dead people. With survival at stake so often, it’s no surprise people resist change.

Which is why I reacted so strongly when I had to pick a new breakfast cereal….

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NOTES: 

• If you’d like a little actual nutrional information about breakfast cereals, you can check out these pages:
  http://www.healthcastle.com/breakfast-cereals.shtml
  http://www.acaloriecounter.com/breakfast-cereal.php
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