Catalysts for change

Shifting a system based on a commonly held belief is challenging. It will usually occur in one of two ways:

  • A shock to the system so significant that the flaws or disconnect between reality and our thinking is so apparent the we’re unable to go back.

  • We learn about a different way.

Education is hard, because real learning requires us to enter a liminal space, a space past what we think now but before we know what we will learn. A space between the current, and the new. These types of spaces are uncomfortable, and so in a property system where the status quo approach has made many people very comfortable indeed, there’s minimal incentives to get uncomfortable.

And the other options isn’t exactly inspiring either: A shock, an event, a trauma to the property system so significant that we have no choice but to change is. not something we would ever plan.

Perhaps there is a better.