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OVERCOMING YOUR IMMUNITY TO CHANGE

SEEING HOW OUR self-protective motivations systematically prevent us from achieving exactly what we most most desire is necessary. Insights can be powerful, even exciting, but they do not necessarily lead to transformation. Most people need a structure to help them channel their aspiration, test and gain distance from their big assumptions, and steadily build a new set of ways to bridge the gap between intentions and behavior. That is precisely what our immunity-to-change follow-up process is designed to do.

We begin this chapter with our own assumption—that you now have in front of you, from your work in chapter 9, a picture of your own immunity to change that intrigues you. It commands your attention ...

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