The narrative is repetitive when the knockers are trying to denigrate others, "A Leopard never changes its spots". Meaning that people do not change. Not never. Now even the most resistant change to some degree, although they will never admit it.
The meaning of the phrase is that things cannot change their innate nature came from the Bible, Jeremiah 13:23. "Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil."
True a leopard can't change its spots, but they can and do change their behaviour dependent on their circumstances. Even down to their coats, dependent of their location.
But people are people and it simply isn't true that people never change. They change all of the time. It's only natural and we can't help but change through our life experiences; needs, wants and desires. If we don't want change, we never develop, or grow or mature. And if we don't, we become stagnant and eventually irrelevant.
Just because we liked and believed in some yesterday doesn't mean we feel the same today. Only those who continue to live in the past hang on to the belief that a "Leopard never changes its spots".
So don’t believe it when people point the finger and say someone will never change or can’t change, that this is the way they are. It's not true.
And with regards to the latest claims that Malcolm Turnbull can't change his spots, have you ever considered that it was perhaps Tony Abbott's unwillingness to change and to listen that lead to his demise? It would be very foolish of Malcolm Turnbull removed once because his ideas did not fit with the general opinions of the public to repeat the same mistake.
