There are many different habits that we would like to try in order to improve our work and life, such as getting into the habit of exercising or learning something new.
If you want to do them, why can’t you do them when you try to do them, even though they are actions you know you should naturally do?
The reason for this is that people are comfortable with their current state.
Not that the status quo is the best, but we are not going to die if we don’t exercise, and we are not going to have any problems if we don’t exercise right away or study right away.
It is the psychology of leaving things as they are because the status quo is enjoyable for the time being.
In our unconscious mind, we place more value on maintaining the status quo than on changing it.
Breaking the law of inertia in life is hard.
The human mind wants to maintain the status quo, which would be like the law of inertia in physics.
Everyone has built up a system of life over the decades they have lived.
It is very difficult to break that system and build a new one. Therefore, we do not want to change.
In psychology, there is a term called status quo bias.
According to the status quo bias, people want to maintain the status quo and have a strong tendency to dislike change.
The decision to maintain the status quo is more persuasive than the rational decision to improve the status quo.
Moving with the status quo can change it.
Okay, so what should we do?
A good way to deal with this is to “start moving while maintaining the status quo.
For example, if you don’t want to go outside and jog, try walking first.
So you make a small change from the status quo.
When people want to start something, they want to change it all at once with a lot of momentum, but in reality, this does not happen.
So, on the contrary, they are positive about maintaining the status quo.
It is important to make the scope of change as small as possible.
The reason why people want to change all at once is because they have the desire to “change all at once.
However, there is a difference between changing and being changed.
It is possible to change temporarily.
But it is not possible to change all at once.
If you cannot change all at once, it is important to change even a little.
