Many social problems seem impossibly daunting, simply because they are so large. Poverty, immigration, cancer deaths, gun violence, climate change - in the light of the magnitude of those problems, most imaginable reforms seem pretty small.
In their book, Switch: How To Change Things When Change Is Hard, authors Chip Heath and Dan Heath argue that the best response to big challenges is often to "shrink the change".
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