The Wheelhouse: Things Change

Are you the same person you were five years ago? How about five weeks ago? The variance is always going to be wider over a longer duration of time, but people change regularly, if not constantly – both for better and worse – and those around them are forced to adjust.

It is much easier to see that change in an old friend from high school at a 10-year reunion than it is to spot the incremental changes in a closer friend or relative that you might see every day.

Numbers would help. If every day, there were a way to track everything your spouse, friends, or family members thought and did, patterns would likely develop and make a radical change seem much more gradual.

Maybe this already happens in a psychology lab somewhere – as this is sounding like the introduction to a TED Talk.

Fortunately, as fantasy players we're spoiled by

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