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What if you were given that choice? For real. What if it weren't just the hyperbolic rhetoric that conflates Academic performance with life
and death?
Not the overblown exhortations of a rabid Prof, or a slick motivational speaker, or a self-dramatizing Topper. We're talking actual life or death now. Your own life or death.
What if a well-informed, trusted authority figure said you had to make difficult and enduring changes in the way you think and act? If
you didn't, your time would end soon -- a lot sooner than it had to.

Could you change when change really mattered?

When it mattered most?

Yes, you say?

Try again.

Yes?

You're probably deluding yourself.

You wouldn't change.

Don't believe it? You want odds? Here are the odds, the scientifically studied odds: nine to one. That's nine to one against you. How do you like those odds

Unfortunately, that kind of emotional persuasion isn't taught in business schools, and it doesn't come naturally to the technocrats who run things -- the engineers, scientists, lawyers, doctors, accountants, and managers who pride themselves on disciplined, analytical thinking.

There's compelling science behind the psychology of change -- it draws
on discoveries from emerging fields such as cognitive science, linguistics, and neuroscience -- but its insights and techniques often seem paradoxical or irrational.

Telling people who are lonely and depressed that they're going to live
longer if they quit smoking or change their diet and lifestyle is not
that motivating," I say. "Who wants to live longer when you're in
chronic emotional pain?"

The Architect of Decay built the cemetery,the only human institution which rejects progress.

And even as they did not like to retain in their knowledge, HE gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication,
wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder,debate, deceit, malignity; the whisperers,
--And so 30Kohm Backbiters, haters of LED's, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection,

implacable, unmerciful:
:Who knowing the judgment , that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them

The story clearly functions as a morality tale in which the gossips
uphold the social order. [:P]
Cheers nonetheless.


{References 1 wiki;
2 Epistles of Romans:: Romans 1:28-32
3 Harold wilson(the change
determinism or teleology)
4 The Architect of decay.}