Why are people so resistant to change?
? – Concerned RESPONSE: Dear Concerned, When Instituters reject and disapprove of PLIM, I have to remember that people are resistant to change for several reasons. It’s the law of inertia. “In physics matter tends to remain at rest if at rest, or, if moving, to keep moving in the same direction, unless affected by some outside force.” Inertia is: “a tendency to remain in a fixed condition without change; disinclination to move or act (Webster’s New World Dictionary).” Did you know that major newspapers ignored the historic Wright Brothers flight in 1903 because Scientific American claimed it was a hoax. According to Trends 2000 by Gerald Celente: “For the next five years-with the Wright Brothers routinely flying test flights around the field at Kitty Hawk-experts continued to argue that heavier-than-air machines were scientifically impossible (p. 306).” Try to find this book. It predicts trends based on facts that you never hear on the news. The media tends to misrepresent, misinform,