If You Always Do What You’ve Always Done… You’ll Always Get What You Always Got (or How I Learned to Stop Isolating as an Introvert)

Life doesn’t come with an instruction manual, but I think that if I were ever commissioned to write such a thing, I would have to devote a prominent chapter to one simple golden rule.

That golden rule would be this:

Do what works, abandon what doesn’t.

When you look at it like that it seems so obvious, so simple a concept that it shouldn’t even need to be stated.

If you always do what you’ve always done, think what you’ve always thought, say what you’ve always said or go where you’ve always gone, you will get the exact same results time and time again.

To expect otherwise is a form of outright insanity.

Simple, right?

Of course it is, at least it wouldn’t be if it didn’t lie almost completely at odds with another apparently universal truth:

Old habits die hard.