Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.
To change is to risk something, making us feel insecure. Not to change is a bigger risk, though we seldom feel that way. There is no choice but to change. People, however, cannot be motivated to change from the outside. All of our motivation comes from within. (Adapted from Ward Sybouts, "Planning in School Administration: A Handbook")
Assignment: What motivates people to change? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations. Your essay should be no less than 300 words.
无What motivates people to change? In my opinion, it is a relentless desire for self-improvement. This inherent potential demands people continue to explore and change both their environments and themselves.
Never should a man be idle for too long. After sensing the changes a man has already made to his environment, the pursuit of self-improvement will once again arouse within his soul and drive him to take actions. This internal desire does not prohibit a man from being happy with his status and achievements. On the contrary, it allows the man to constantly strive for greater change. What motivates people to change is the ongoing need to redefine people’s lives and identities—to elevate them to higher levels of eminence and success.
The desire which we experience from time to time throughout our lives comes from being pulled by the invisible force of biology and life-cycle stages to be a different person than we were before. A baby learns to crawl, walk, and run because she is hard-wired to move through those stages. In adolescence we couldn’t ignore our hormones and the changes they bring if we wanted to. And the inevitable act of falling in love dramatically expands our view of life in ways we could not know without that experience. Courtship, marriage, birth of children, the launching of grown children, and the onset of old age each present us with different opportunities to evolve, grow and develop.
In conclusion, most of the infinite number of changes in life is driven by a desire for better life. Those who do not want to change and only like to complain, because they aren’t in touch with, or is able to deny the pressure of “pain, pull, or push forces.” Unless people experience one of them, they are pretty well stuck right where they are.