I totally agree with you on the whole people who have created their own limitations and boundaries and then projecting them on to you in a sort of crap bucket mentality, it takes a lot of resistance to break past it and not everyone is that mentally strong. I know I've had to deal with my fair share of it.
You can change, you can break the routine, you can chase new things but each change will come with a certain amount of resistance
Very true. And that resistance is so often coming from ourselves (I don't feel like it! I'm not good enough. I'll just fail again)