After a lot of decades I learned the amount of time it takes to make a sea-change in character is about 10 years - providing externalities don't overly sabotage

After a lot of decades I learned the amount of time it takes to make a sea-change in character is about 10 years - providing externalities don't overly sabotage the process. And change¹ isn't really what we do; we cover bad with good. We surface counterproductive drivers. We counter them by layering new thinking/behaviors over old. Each layer is it's own project and most don't stick for a while. None of it is doable in 21 days, not the smallest bit. ¹ see also, healing