Why do we resist change?

Answer 1

Change is the word used to describe the transition that occurs from same to different.

Change, the quality of impermanence and the flux, has had a chequered history as a concept. In ancient Greek philosophy, while Heraclitus saw change as ever-present and all-encompassing, Parmenides virtually denied its existence.

Ovid produced a classic thematic handling of change as metamorphosis in his Metamorphoses.

Ptolemaic astronomy envisioned a largely static universe, with erratic change confined to less worthy spheres.

Medieval thought fostered great respect for authority and revelation, severely cramping any encouragement of change.

Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz harnessed mathematical concepts into calculus to provide mathematical models of change. This constituted a major step forward in understanding flux and variation.

Cultural attitudes to change itself may fall into one of at least two categories:

* Change is random, lacking determinism or teleology.
* Change is cyclical, and one expects circumstances to recur. This concept, often seen as related to Eastern world views such as Hinduism or Buddhism, nevertheless had great popularity in Europe in the Middle ages, and often appears in depictions of the wheel of fortune.

Change may require organisms and organizations to adapt.

Change is the force that holds the universe together, and allows one thing to become something else. It can be said that without change, there would be no matter, energy, or anything else in the universe.

A group of wise people got together to find a phrase that would always be true no matter what happens under any circumstances. The only thing they found that would meet that definition was the phrase "This too, shall pass." which ironically is what Loki once wrote down as one of the laws of change at the beginning of the universe.

Answer 2

We resist change because it takes us out off our element and brings us to a element of surprise

Answer 3

Better the devil you know then the demon you do not....

People are often afraid of the unknown... change brings about that unknown quantity. Hence people resist change... preferring to stay with what they know, regardless of how detremintal it might be to them.