Stops Working.

What creates the illusion of a changed human mind is a simple pattern what once worked stops working.

- George Saunders

We can wait for each driver on our roads to work out for themselves, either through personal experience, or by word of mouth, or what they read or watch - what speed to drive through suburbia.

We can wait for each driver to hit a pedestrian or lose control on a wet, slippery road, or even have a near miss, and from this one event, calculate for themselves what is the optimum driving speed that balances arriving at their destination with being able to respond to the driving conditions.

Or we can pass a law that limits the speed and erect signs notifying of that speed and occasionally place a police officer to detect, stop, and fine people travelling over that speed.

Most people have patterns of negative behaviour that stop working for them at age five, or fifteen, or twenty-five due to some life experience. We change our minds and adopt new behaviours. Others live selfish or corrupt or fraudulent, or manipulative lives that, but for some minor scratches, continue working for them. In the absence of a force imposed on them - a boss, spouse, friend, tragedy, or the law - they don’t change. And the rest of us suffer because of it.

Some of those people become bosses.