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I believe we experience change in four phases: panic, adaptation, new normal, and “wouldn’t go back.”
Nigel Parry
The first three are about being forced to make changes we wouldn’t have previously considered. That last phase is when we realize how valuable these changes were. We start to say, “I wouldn’t want to go back to the way it was before.”