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The Eco Lightbulb Principle Of Change JANUARY 7, 2021 What I am learning, acutely, about change is that it happens glacially over time. Obviously, we don’t want it to happen like this. We want to stand on top of a mountain under a beam of sunlight and shout “I Have Changed” and for that to be all it takes. We want the change of the films we grew up with, where the impossible situation resolves itself and the boy realises he loves her five minutes before the end. Real life change, however, is more like an eco lightbulb . When you turn it on it casts nothing but a green tinge of barely perceptible light which leaves you groping in darkness for the sofa. It just doesn’t get brighter. You sit in the depressing glow, hating the polar bears for subjecting you to this. Candles would be better. A little time passes, you start to read the magazine next to you and you realise you can see – and in fact, you’ve been able to see for a while. The bulb came ...