How Everything Broken Will Be Fixed

<p>Ifyou&rsquo;ve paid close attention, you&rsquo;ll have noticed that since COVID-19 first arrived three years ago,&nbsp;<strong>everything has changed</strong>. Or, more accurately, everything has&nbsp;<em>begun&nbsp;</em>to change. I&rsquo;m referring to where and how we work, live, learn and socialize; what we value and thus invest in and prioritize; how we view ourselves, our communities and the planet at large; and how these perceptions are shifting the ground underfoot across the spectrum of human activity, and will likely result in an effective&nbsp;<em>rewrite</em>&nbsp;of a century (if not twenty) of behaviors.</p> <p>In the past, I&rsquo;ve referred to the pandemic as&nbsp;<a href="https://aninjusticemag.com/2020-the-reset-year-7915df5b782a" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><em>The Great Reset</em></a>, because human behavior is remarkably consistent and because the path to any &ldquo;new normal&rdquo; starts, progresses and ends the same way, every time.</p> <p>Everett Rogers brilliantly codified this phenomenon as the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><em>Diffusion of Innovations</em></a>, and it looks something like this:</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:700/1*prjUkwCCKPdoBgiWIZdaMg.jpeg" style="height:526px; width:700px" /></p> <p>Rogers Everett, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons</p> <h2>COVID-Fueled Innovation</h2> <p>The pandemic acted as the de facto&nbsp;<strong>trigger event</strong>&nbsp;for a systemic rewrite. It had to, in order to shake things up&nbsp;<em>enough&nbsp;</em>for the cracks to appear to&nbsp;<em>enough&nbsp;</em>people, then disrupt the status quo&nbsp;<em>enough&nbsp;</em>for us to do something about it.</p> <p><a href="https://anthonyfieldman.medium.com/how-everything-broken-will-be-fixed-a7fee4b91f6b"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>
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