Know When To Start, And When To Stop

In all societies, there are people and groups that want to maintain the status quo because it is in their interests to do so.

Even if there are tensions, the most creative societies are those where it is still possible for the new thing to take over. If t...

• Some people say they want to change, but they don't really mean it.
• Even when altering our behavior represents all reward and no risk and clinging to the status quo can costs us our careers and relationships, we still resist change.
• Smoking should be a relati...

• Preserving sound passive and mundane, but it's a real choice.
• Successful people have a lot to preserve, but they also then to have the urge of constant improvement; to fight the status quo and not maintain it.
• The most thankless decision we can make is the one that prevents s...