There is a theory in evolutionary biology that depicts the changes that species incur through the glacially slow time period is not one of gradual small changes over a long period of time, but actually a short period of hyper change followed by a long time period of stasis where little or no changes takes place.
Think of this as stair steps analogy of evolution biology. This isn’t a theory to explain away the gaps of the fossil record but the way molecularly how things work and how slowly a beneficial gene mutation must go through to catch on to the wider population of the species. One of the most profound discoveries in evolutionary biology is that many genes that we posses and express has no real benefits to fitness or anything else that is considered an advantage trait, but fillers that get stuffed in between that is just there as fillers, much like a pillow and the stuffing inside.
This had me thinking that long periods of very slow change or stasis, may in fact, not really be a very bad thing. If it works for the earth and species over time, then it’s possible that long periods of stasis could in fact be beneficial. A period of stabilization and status quo is very common occurrences in business and personally, though a much shorter time period than evolutionary time frame, but none the less the same if scaled.
We often fill the time with nothing, but fillers of leisure and idleness and months and years pass without much or any change, but these are the times that we experience the most and is what is common. To accept this as normal is not a just a way to cop out and tune out of your goals, but an understanding that hyper periods are short lived, and stasis is what takes place most of the time. Accept stasis but be prepared for the hyper period of change that will come.
