Immunity to Change
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Adaptability:
Immunity to Change
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How to discover your immunity to change?
To understand you own inner immunity to change, reflect on the questions below, and fill in the framework on page 3.
Improvement goal
What is your top priority self improvement goal?
Think about what really matters to you and how you would like to improve yourself.
The goal should be stated affirmatively, if possible. Try not to use sentences like I have to stop..., I will not... Instead
state what you would like to get better at, for example, I want to be better at ...
Doing/ Not Doing
What are the things you are doing/not doing, that works against your improvement goal?
Write down actual behaviours, things you do and don't do that work against your improvement goal. Include self-
talk, but exclude emotions. For example, instead of saying I get nervous, write - I withhold, avoid eye contact.
Be honest to yourself, write down what you actually think. You might not like what you feel or write, but let it be at
this stage.
Don't worry about why you do or don't do these behviours. Just write them down.
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Hidden “Goals”
1. Fear box - Imagine of doing the opposite of the actual behaviours in previous question
Imagine yourself doing so - what do you feel/think?
What concerns, doubts, anxieties, fears do you experience?
2. Fear into a goal - Consider that you may have a commitment to prevent this fear or loss from happening.
Rewrite your fear into a goal statement.
After writing fears into goals, check again your column 2 and see, if your fears connect with why you do or don't to
things. Check also if you see connection or tension between your fears and goals.
This a place where to discover your true immune system and understand better why changes do not always work out.
Big assumptions
What assumptions must you be making that would keep you captive or give rise to the column 3 commitments?
Be brave and write down your honest thoughts. It will truly help you to understand your own behaviour.
These are the beliefs that keep you on the status quo. Assumptions connect back to fears and create them. This is the
moment when you can understand why you might have these fears.
Assumptions can feel real and powerful even when you know they are wrong. By understanding and noticing your
assumptions you will also be able to change them.
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Improvement goal Doing/Not doing Hidden “Goals” Big assumptions
What is your top priority self What are the things you are What assumptions must you be
improvement goal? doing/not doing, that works Fear box making that would keep you
against your improvement goal? What concerns, doubts, captive or give rise to your column 3
anxieties, fears do you commitments?
experience?
Fear into goal
Rewrite your fear into a
goal statement.
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How to overturn your immune system?
It's likely that you have already been fulfilling your discovered commitments and pursuing your hidden goals for a long
time. Since these behaviors are unconscious, changing them requires time and effort. Therefore, you need to approach
this process systematically. The authors of the Immunity to Change methodology recommend the following steps:
Observe the big assumption in action
Stay alert to natural challenges and counters to the big assumption
Create a continuum of progress
Write the biography of your big assumption
Design a first test of your big assumption
Examine the results of your first test
Develop, run, evaluate further tests
In this video, Lisa Lahey provides a detailed explanation of this process and also explains how to conduct the
assumption tests (starting at 58:20).
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