“Change” means changing your identity
It’s one thing to say, “I want to start going to the gym weekly.” It’s another to say, “It’s time to change and become the type of person who goes to the gym weekly.”
The second implies that to go to the gym, you must completely reinvent yourself. And that raises the emotional stakes massively.
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