Charles Darwin.
This quote summarise sadly our current situation at work. At a time when we would have to change our consuming habit or we will disappear at a relatively short term, the reluctance to changes is never been so strong. C. Darwin did not invent a new concept with this sentence; he just described a fixed law of the Nature. And it applies to anything on the surface of the Earth. If something does not work on a long term basis, it would have to change or be changed or die. The problem with people is that they are conservative, too conservative. We do have a linear conception of our environment. Things are like this today, they will remain the same tomorrow. Since I'm working for money, I've alternated periods of work and periods of unemployment. The ability to adapt myself to an new working environment each time I did get back to work helped me to develop a great capacity to deal with Change. Last year I was unemployed (again), but not scared at all. I think I'm far away of being able to understand people who fight for their job. If your position is withdrawn then you'll find another job, this is it. This reminds me the Theory of Chaos, nicely described by Michael Crichton in his novel Jurasic Park (the book, not the movie who is cr#p comparing to the book): any state of equilibrium cannot persist indefinitely. There was only a only series of states of equilibrium punctuated by periods of chaos. For anyone, chaos is a transition stage like the time between two jobs. The most you can adapt your behaviour during a period chaos, the highest are your chances to survive. And so is personal employment.
Nature's laws govern everything that is on the surface of Earth. Nothing is out of scope of it. Learning knowing them helped me to cope with them, even taking advantage of the situations that it generates. Being prepared, because those laws never changed it makes them so predictable.
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