If it's the last thing I do I'm gonna change that person!
How much brainpower has been consumed with schemes and dreams around changing other people?
I mean:
- we observe what other people do and say,
- we assume we know what they are thinking or we choose to believe that's not an important factor,
- we think about how those other people are all wrong, mistaken, and making errors,
- we concoct a vision of their better future,
- we compare notes with accomplices to make sure we get our arguments airtight, and
- we set about persuading the wrong, mistaken, error-making people how to go about getting their better future.
How much brainpower has been consumed doing that?
I suspect many of us have spent considerable time in that I'm-going-to-change-other-people zone.
It isn't time well spent, is it?