Why Do People Not Like New Ideas?

It makes us feel bad:

People don’t like to feel uncertain; it’s an aversive state that generally we try to escape from. Unfortunately creativity requires uncertainty by definition, because we’re trying to do something that hasn’t been done before.

This is why NGDP targeting ain’t gonna be adopted any time soon.

 

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