Mastering Change When Everything is Changing with Brad Stulberg
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Stability through Change: Allostasis vs. Homeostasis
The conventional model of change, homeostasis, views change as a cycle of order, disorder, and back to order, inherently portraying change as negative and something to resist or quickly return from. However, researchers have introduced the concept of allostasis, which describes change as a cycle of order, disorder, reorder. Allostasis argues that stability is achieved through change, contrasting with homeostasis which argues for stability through sameness. The term allostasis carries a double meaning: stability is possible through change, and stability through change is achieved by changing to some extent.
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