Humans are afraid of change…right?
Actually we’re not.
There is no shortage of valuable advice on how to embrace change and increase resiliency — numerous articles and even whole books have been written on the subject. But the underlying assumption seems to be that people are afraid of change. This belief is expressed as a universal truth, just accepted on its face as fact. But are humans really afraid of change?
Consider Kane Tanaka of Japan, currently the oldest living person at 115 years of age. She was born on January 2, 1903. That puts the date of her birth, in fact, closer to the presidency of George Washington (1789-1797) than to today.
This means that all of the US presidencies, from Washington to Trump, can feasibly fit into two long human lifespans — three comfortably, if they smoke or have any other vices!
We often have a skewed perception of events and history, which masks the tremendous amount of change we’ve seen in such a relatively short period of time. For example, Neil Armstrong…
