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CHAPTER 6.

The Minor Groove

The Transition

“Nothing in the world can change from one reality into another unless it first turns into nothing, that is, into the reality of the between-stage… This is the primal state which no one can grasp because it is a force that precedes creation. It is called chaos.” - Martin Buber

Transition is the psychological process of dealing with change, a passage from one existence into another. A big and deep change might require a long time for transition but sometimes even a minor change can presume a transitional space. Eventually, nothing changes without actively changing it.

Let’s say you rearrange the furniture at home. You want to move the sofa to a new place and see how it fits in there. Maybe you don’t like it and you want to try it somewhere else. Then you want to throw out the old plant from the corner and remove the carpet that doesn’t match with your new order. Maybe you buy something new and give that old table a new paint? This is called transition. Change happens when you have found the final new place for your sofa and other stuff. If simplified, this is the way the transition happens in the human mind too.

When I look back at the consulting projects I consider unsuccessful, I find one main reason why the desired change didn’t take place.