“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is specifically your own.”
— Bruce Lee

If adaptation is so clearly an advantage, why don’t we do it more easily? Why is change such a heavy lift?

Because there will always be reasons not to. Many in fact.

In my own life, I think the scales of adaptation and preservation have always, at least at the beginning of any new decision, felt balanced. Like by changing I was giving up as much as I would stand to (maybe) gain.

So then, how do we derisk c...