One of the essential functions of the human brain is to enable us to cope with changing situations. In the process of evolution, humans have been successful in surviving through challenging circumstances. Thanks to our brain which adapts to new conditions.
In daily life, we face a number of challenges requiring our resilient response. It is not easy to handle office politics, social tensions, family dramas and financial stress, all at a time. But we survive them, and yet grow in life and career. Why? Because our brain helps us to sail through them successfully.
However, the brain may not be effective everytime. What happens when our brain directs us in a certain direction in any particular situation, but our previous experiences, emotions and preferences hold us back? If you face such a situation, will you still follow the logical direction given by your brain? Maybe not because other factors would mislead you as if they are more powerful parameters. When landed in jail, a prisoner would certainly find it difficult to adjust to the confined environment, strict routine and lack of freedom. But after serving his long sentence, let's say seven years, when he has almost become habitual of the prison routine, he would find it difficult to cope with even the new found freedom. But the brain helps him to resettle in the free world, the same way it helped him to adjust inside the prison.
In office also, when your boss changes, or your team changes or you change the job, it isn't easy to find yourself settled in the new place immediately. It is your brain which explains you the situation, people and place, so you can learn faster to fit in there well. The brain has ability to analyse the given circumstances, adjust them as per your comfort and explain you in that manner. It creates easy-to-understand type template that develops our thought process in more comforting manner. We start making efforts to adapt to the new environment, thanks to rationalisation done by our brain.
Did you ever see your brain's role from this change management aspect?
