So, I’ve been thinking about many things, and trying to answer this question. Why does innovation take so long? Why does the consumer sector generally lag behind the state-of-the-art of technology, with the exception of entertainment? I have lots more to say on this subject, with more in context to the particular questions, but for now, I wanted to highlight the overaching point and observation: Humans are creatures of habit. Often times humans can fail to take advantage of innovation simply out of habit.
So, what does the Internet have to say about this? A lot. Here I highlight just a few relevant articles.
20191007/DuckDuckGo humans are creatures of habit
20191007/https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/creatures-habit/200907/we-are-creatures-habit
20191007/http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/why-change-is-so-hard-the-power-of-habit-in-the-human-brain-0317155
20191007/http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/why-people-change-and-some-dont-0526144
On the flip-side, humans are also creatures of adaptation. And although for most people, adaptation is relatively slow, all that was needed was a tiny bit for humans to change the world, and that’s how we got to where we are today.
Wow, and I read this, and it sounds so unusual. Asking family members to help with habit changes for exercise? That doesn’t happen around me, chances are things are the same for you too.
20191010/http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/think-change-is-difficult-its-all-in-your-head-0917135