Thanks for the inclusion of visual examples such as time lapse photography. I want to agree with his two statements about LO's in general and then take a certain exception to one of them and offer a different formulation which I think more consistent with LO's. It is as though we have already decided something about change which is not present in the larger system and are trying to make it happen against some force. People relate to change that they are involved in. Change is a process of development, evolution, emergence and our expectations of change are a match for our understanding of what is happening in the system, our environment and our relationship to it.
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