Friday, November 13, 2009

Pain Threshold, or Why People Stay

Cebisan Kitab – AtGW by AR

Change is usually not a question of capability; it’s almost always a question of motivation.
The problem is, change is often a ‘should’ and not a ‘must’

Page 125.
Pain Threshold.

Have you ever experienced this in a personal relationship, for example? You hung in there, it was painful and you really weren’t happy, but you stayed in anyway. Why? You rationalized that it will get better, without doing anything to make it better.
If you were in so much pain, why didn’t you leave? Even though you were unhappy, your fear of the unknown was a more powerful motivating force. “Yeah, I’m unhappy now,” you may have thought, “but what if I leave this person and then I never find anyone else? At least I know how to deal with the pain I have now.”

This kind of thinking is what keeps people from making changes.

3 comments:

DraygourN said...

So, guys/gals, what do you think? We have seen many people, especially women, they stay in the relationship despite the unhappiness they are facing. Any thoughts on this?
Or is the paragraphs above more or less answer the lingering questions we have running rampant from forum’s thread to thread.

I for one think that this may not only relates to relationship, but in many things also. Like, in work.

Fear of the unknown.
No clear reason of why / lack of motivation.

DraygourN said...

bleh, I would like to post this as discussion in vf... but they said its too long -.-

reynn said...

i agree..some people are afraid of change,change is perceived as..could be worse..than could be better..

you can post it to the max length of words allowed,wait for it to be approved,then edit it with its full content..