I ran three experiments to find out people’s reactions towards change on three posts on Facebook. It is an interesting experiment as I found out the nature of the reaction to change is associated with a person’s experience, specifically their working environment, industry and their age.

Different type of reactions

The engineers are tolerance to change

Engineers are more tolerant of the change that happens to them. As they handle change requests more often, also they don’t have many negotiation bets as those change requests have usually gone through a lot of reviews before they pass on to the engineer. They accept change and agree change is something necessary for the sake of a good product or even money. However there’s nobody really talks about how they feel about change, maybe they deal with tasks more than deal with a human. Tasks don’t have feelings, and the only goal is to complete the task.

Mature people tend to be more emotion

Another group of targets are people who are trainers, there’s much interaction on the questions but those who replied seem to have a negative feeling about the change. Most of them prefer not to discuss it, maybe their focus is more on their business or family. Lesser interaction doesn’t mean they don’t aware. They are aware but would like to see how people react before they react. They have more mature thinking of the change and take change as a challenge, and accept this is the journey everyone has to go through.

The fear of millennials, but stay positive

The last target group is aged between 29-35. People at this age tend to have more resonate with the feeling but they are quite positive about it. They like to take challenge also aware that what stop them is fear. Besides that low willpower keep them from failing to achieve the result. Either they set high expectations for themselves or they ignore the feeling of the inner man.

The essential of feeling

The feeling is an essential element to form part of humans, but not many people care about it. It is important to relook at our feeling because most of the time it was the emotion that stops us from changing. The anger stops us from thinking of a solution to change our situation. The anxiety makes us fear stepping out of the first step. Understanding your own feeling can help you prevent from controlling by the emotion so that you can have a clear mind to make your desire change.

I have a talk on 13/5/2023 at 930 AM SGT to discuss more the challenges of change and overcome them through self-awareness.