I know this is all psychobabble to most people, after leaving the military and before I switched to safety and security in mining I did a degree in Occupational Therapy and worked for 2 years in Neuro rehabilitation. Teaching people how to redo things, or new ways to do them, after a stroke, brain damage or other form of neurological condition. Some people would pick things up really quickly, learn reasonably quickly and understand why something was being done a certain way. Some would even get ahead of you, pre-emptively understanding where you were going and what needed to be done. Most however, would fight you every step of the way, because they didn't understand what was being done, they couldn't comprehend that the neurological injury had fundementally changed the way they needed to approach life, and they resented having to approach things in a different way than they always had. They were confident in their way of viewing problems and the world and despite a lifechanging injury they would steadfastly refuse to change (even if it meant condemning themselves to a life as a sentient bedshitting cripple) because they'd always had that group consensus that they thought correctly and didn't need to change a thing. That fucking mindset, it just ensures somebody remains feeble and crippled, but you can't shake people off of it.
It was this type of thing, and thinking about this type of thing, which forced me to change careers. You have a narrow window of time to start recovery from a neuro injury, and it was depressing to see so many people fuck that up because they'd locked themselves into a way of thinking and approaching problems that they refused to deviate from because up until that point in time they'd been rewarded by society for being and thinking like everyone else.
