Why You Don't Change (Even When You Want To)

Why do you keep not doing the thing you already know would help? Ross Ellenhorn's answer in How We Change is that staying the same makes sense: part of you is protecting you from something real. In this episode: the Ten Reasons Not to Change, the fear of hope that sits under all of them, why starting a change feels worse than ignoring the problem, and the one question to ask a team member who keeps not changing.

Timestamps (estimated at 150 wpm — adjust after your edit)

• 00:00 — Why staying the same makes sense
• 01:06 — "Why don't you just…" and why advice doesn't work
• 02:54 — Christy, the director who's been "about to delegate" for three years
• 05:10 — Ellenhorn's Ten Reasons Not to Change
• 08:02 — Fear of hope and playing possum
• 09:28 — Five things to do (four for you, one for your team)
• 11:11 — The question to ask yourself tonight

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