Why are we so dissatisfied with our current life but so hard to change?
Why is it so difficult when we want to change our financial situation and living habits?
Why is it so difficult for us to change the "status quo"?
"Status quo" is like "gravity", dragging you all the time, making it impossible for you to fly, let alone "fly out".
What is the status quo? Why is the status quo always so difficult to change, so many people give up changing for the rest of their lives, so they choose to lie flat and rotten?
The so-called "status quo", in essence, is nothing more than "the accumulation of the past".
If you understand the so-called "status quo" in this way, you will understand that if the "status quo" is not satisfactory, then it must be because "the accumulation in the past is not enough".
The worse the status quo, the less accumulated, the more urgent. And because accumulation is something that no one can do like a magic trick, so when faced with the extremely uncomfortable choice of "recognize it" or "accumulate from now on", a considerable number of people end up directly Choose the former, lie flat and settle down.
However, if we clearly know that the "status quo" is the "accumulation of the past", then we can understand how difficult it is to "immediately change the status quo" - so difficult that it is actually impossible Because we can't change the past, we can only change the present, so we can only do one thing:
Take the present as a new starting point, start to accumulate, focus on the future, and live in the future.
What is the key to changing the status quo?
is "patience" .
The root of myopia is always the same: a desperate desire to change the status quo.
Since the status quo is the accumulation of the past, it is not so easy to change, or it is impossible to change at all. What we can do is to start from now, accumulate for the future, and strive to change the "future status quo."
So we want to "live in the future", and the key to "living in the future" is to "accumulate slowly" "patiently", start accumulating from now, and then change the "current status of the future".
The status quo is nothing but the accumulation of the past.