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Pivot Your Perspective
As I did in the introduction, I am going to use the
concept of left-brain and right-brain throughout our
discussion of change. Having a shared language and
understanding will be essential from here on out.
The left-brain is verbal, logical, structural, and of a
sequential-processing orientation- typically, looking
at individual pieces first, and then creating a holistic
Change, in its simplest
form, is the act of
moving from a current
state, through to a
transitional s tat e , to
a future state.
picture. The right-brain is non-verbal, intuitive, and of
a more instinctual, simultaneous-processing orientationtypically,
looking at the holistic picture, and then the
individual pieces. Neither modality trumps the other;
both have shared importance. What is essential to
understand is that most of us have a tendency to face
change in either a left-brained or a right-brained way.
It can be said that, emotionally, most of us are
averse to change. Why is that? It is because change
can take a negative form—like losing something or
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