Kegan and Lahey define immunity to change as a "hidden commitment", with an underlying root cause, that competes and conflicts with a stated commitment to change. It is these hidden commitments that cause people to not change and to fail to realize their best intentions. Put simply, it is these hidden commitments that cause us to not keep New Year resolutions, to fail with diets, to not stop smoking and a host of other changes many people are unable to make. The essential point is that we all develop our own inner map of reality. We interpret the world through this inner map. We have different levels of capacity to be conscious or aware of our own inner map and especially how we create our experience of life through it (most of us,
