> How do people decide to make major life changes? Most days, people don't decide to change their lives in big ways. On a few days, they do. What's special abo

> How do people decide to make major life changes? Most days, people don't decide to change their lives in big ways. On a few days, they do. What's special about those days? How much is it about the stimulus versus their own inner state? A recognition of self was what it took for me. Changed my life situation pretty recently for the better after a realization following a personal conversation with a close friend. The realization undermined a lot of my assumptions about how I was living my life, but it took substantial input and questioning from them for me to understand it; it was akin to pulling a thread and unraveling a tapestry, so to speak. Can't say this is true for everyone, but it was for me. tl;dr a bit of both.