The cost of becoming

There is a kind of change that costs nothing — the change of acquiring information. You read, you learn, you know more than you did. It is useful and it is cheap.

And there is another kind that costs a great deal — the change of becoming a different person. This one asks for honesty you would rather avoid, discipline you would rather defer, and a willingness to be wrong about yourself.

Almost everyone wants the second kind of change. Almost no one wants to pay for it. That gap is where most development efforts quietly die.

The work is worth it. But it helps to know, going in, that it will ask for something real.