{"id":5969,"date":"2015-01-19T15:05:19","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T23:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/recruitloop.wpengine.com\/?p=5969"},"modified":"2016-02-29T15:51:11","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T23:51:11","slug":"why-do-we-fear-change-in-the-first-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zippia.com\/employer\/why-do-we-fear-change-in-the-first-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do We Fear Change In The First Place?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month I shared Marty Wilson\u2019s talk on &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zippia.com\/employer\/why-you-should-get-out-of-your-comfort-zone\/\"><em>Why You Should Get Out of Your Comfort Zone<\/em><\/a>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p>Today I want to share another one of Marty\u2019s inspirational videos on \u2018<em>Why We Fear Change In The First Place\u2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoy it &#8230;<!--more--><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GeMn9xxhY84\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Transcription:<\/p>\n<p>Hi I\u2019m Marty Wilson, author of the bestselling <em>What I Wish I Knew<\/em> series and international conference speaker on taking the fear out of change.<\/p>\n<p>Today I\u2019m going to explain why we fear change in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Charles Darwin, born over 200 years ago, the father of the theory of evolution &#8211; and an incredible Thought Leader said:\u00a0\u201c<em>It\u2019s not the strongest of the species who survive, not the most intelligent, but those who are the most adaptive to change.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Change is hard for all of us.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a pharmacist turned copywriter turned stand up comic turned wine writer turned author and speaker and I still find change incredibly challenging.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever heard anyone say, \u201c<em>I love change. I am The ChangeMaster. Change scares me not!<\/em>\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, it\u2019s actually evolution that has made change so hard for us. Survival of the fittest has actually hardwired our brains to seek patterns and avoid change.<\/p>\n<p>When something is familiar we feel relaxed and confident.<\/p>\n<p>When we&#8217;re trying something different, we get a surge of adrenaline that gives us sweaty palms and a tight feeling in our stomach.<\/p>\n<p>We go into our favourite restaurant \u2026 <em>Ahh nic<\/em>e. They\u2019ve changed their whole menu \u2026 <em>Ahh<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I come home to my wife of 10 years \u2026 I relax. I come home to my wife and her new personal trainer Sven, and I tense up.<\/p>\n<p>We all know how this adrenaline feels.<\/p>\n<p>Some call it fear or nerves or butterflies; some call it knots in the stomach; sadly some of us call it \u201cthat thing\u201d that stops me learning a language, starting a business, or phoning that girl.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s such a shame we\u2019re all brought up calling it \u201csomething bad\u201d, because it doesn\u2019t have to be. We only feel it at all because our physiology hasn\u2019t caught up with civilised society.<\/p>\n<p>Emotionally and intellectually we\u2019re not primitive anymore, but we still have this Neanderthal part of our brain that sets off alarm bells if we \u2018move too far away from the cave\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>10,000 years ago this was a great survival mechanism. Back then life was physically dangerous and people who explored were people who died.<\/p>\n<p>But these days it\u2019s almost never life or death. We still get the same big hit of adrenaline but we\u2019re just out of our comfort zone so fight or flight just isn\u2019t appropriate anymore.<\/p>\n<p>In a new business pitch it\u2019s not considered good form to run away from your client screaming like your hair is on fire, or lean over the desk and punch them in the head. However because we\u2019ve grown up calling this adrenaline surge \u201cfear\u201d, that\u2019s how we react to it. We all try to build a little bubble of sameness around ourselves to avoid it.<\/p>\n<p>We choose new friends who are just like our old friends; Use new systems just like our old systems. We go into a pizza place, look at the menu and think \u201c<em>Hmm, Sicilian \u2026 Capricosa looks nice \u2026 but I\u2019ll have Ham and Pineapple please<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Life is a short, precious gift. We can\u2019t let that underdeveloped Neanderthal part of our brain convince us to spend our life safely tucked up inside our cave.<\/p>\n<p>To use a more Australian metaphor, don\u2019t live between the flags.<\/p>\n<p>Sure on the beach, swim between the flags. But don\u2019t <em>live<\/em> between the flags.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re choosing a motto for you life, please don\u2019t make it \u201c<em>Same again thank<\/em>s.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If your life has a soundtrack, don\u2019t make it a \u201c<em>Non-stop block of Classic Roc<\/em>k\u201d. If your life has a pizza flavour please don\u2019t make it Ham &amp; Pineapple.<\/p>\n<p>Marty Wilson is the author of the bestselling What I Wish I Knew series and international conference speaker. Check out his video series on taking the fear out of change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Survival of the fittest has actually hardwired our brains to seek patterns and avoid change. 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