PERFECT ADAPTATION

The other day one of my clients was telling me that he had just discovered that he needed hearing aids. His wife had been telling him for some time that he wasn’t hearing right but he wasn’t aware of the problem. He eventually went and got tested only to discover that his wife was right, and that he couldn’t hear a whole range of sounds. The thing was these were the sounds that tend to mark the start and finish of words, so how come he never noticed this problem?

It turns out that what he had done was learn to lip read at the same rate as he had lost his hearing. In other words he had so perfectly adapted to this change that it was totally invisible to him. It is quite amazing how cleverly we can change to avoid having to change!

He now sports 2 incredibly clever, hi-tech ear pieces that can be programmed to match exactly the frequencies he needs and also the environment he is in! We human beings are incredible in what we can do and what we can get used to. It seems, though, that most of our energy is deployed trying to keep us just where we are today, where it is safe, because it is known. History documents also sorts of terrible environments that we have learn to survive in and once we have a strategy that works we fight to stay where we are.

Take leaf out of his book, try something different and your life can change in all sorts of wonderful ways.

The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words… hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.”

 

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