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Reinvention doesn’t always begin with changing what we do. Sometimes it begins with changing how we understand what has already happened. The past may feel fixed, but our relationship to it is not—and that shift in perspective is often where real change begins.
Reinvention doesn’t always begin with changing what we do. Sometimes it begins with changing how we understand what has already happened. The past may feel fixed, but our relationship to it is not—and that shift in perspective is often where real change begins.
People think that only the future can be changed. Still, the future outcome of your actions is continually changing the past,according to a new theory that adds even more weirdness to the strange world of quantum mechanics. This theory says that when two particles interact, they become entangled at the subatomic quantum level and lose their individual probabilities. When you add the impact of future events to the last events, the effect of all the events themselves changes.
The past can and does change. It’s exquisitely sensitive and delicately balanced.” -Keiichiro Hirano, At the End of the Matinee.
This quote was used in Chris Guillebeau’s article: “CHANGE YOUR FUTURE TO REWRITE THE PAST.” The selection was taken from an article on his website, The Art of Non-Conformity.
The next time someone says, “You can’t change the past,” you’ll know better. You’re changing the past every day! The past changes on its own, merely through time and events outside your control, because your perspective of what happens changes. Your ongoing experiences affect your conclusions about the past. How you see past events is part of the narrative of your life. Your story determines your future, and your narrative is how you know it.
This website is about self-improvement, self-development & reinventing ourselves. The theme of reinventing ourselves appears in my books, essays, career development work, and in most sections of this website. My passion is to improve daily and to find new ideas to help!
Over time, I’ve come to see reinvention less as rewriting events and more as re-seeing them. The facts of the past may remain the same, but meaning doesn’t. As we change, the story changes with us—and that quiet revision shapes who we become next.
