Navigating Change Fatigue
Change is the act or fact of something becoming or being different. At ground level people generally don’t like change. Physiologically and psychologically we want things to stay as close to familiar as possible, with maybe some change on the margins to spice things up. Change is a necessary part of life but sometimes it can admittedly be taken too far. Change fatigue is something that I didn’t even know existed until I worked at this one job.
This phrase started making it’s rounds throughout my sphere of influence towards the end of my tenure, and it suggested so much change happening that the people enduring it were becoming tired, exhausted, and or fatigued. A balance that needs to be struck in life is knowing when enough is enough. Typically change is a byproduct of progressivism, things are advancing or moving forward. But an interesting thing to hone in on is the characteristics of those advancements.
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