Chris Collins reflects on entering new environments at 24 or 25 and his impulse to fix what he saw as broken systems. He describes how people resistant to change blame newcomers for the disruption, treating it as a shock rather than an opportunity.
About 24–25 years old.
They haven't seen change in forever, so they're not conditioned. So change is like a shock to their system and represents everything they're afraid of. And then they attribute that to the new person coming in, which is me. And I'm. You know, I did this. I was just a kid, right? I'm 24, I'm 25. I'm rolling in. And I got to the point where the more broken they were, the quicker I wanted to sign them up because I was just good at it and.
