Hey Everyone! Apart of my job as a program manager is putting together training material for mentors for further training in leadership development and self awareness.
Today I have been working on paradigms and this is a piece of what I did today.
Ways to describe or define a paradigm (from uc-riverside's website)
• a mental model
• a way of seeing
• a filter for one's perceptions
• a frame of reference
• a framework of thought or beliefs through which one's world or reality is interpreted
• an example used to define a phenomenon
• a commonly held belief among a group of people, such as scientists of a given discipline
Sometimes people come to a place in their life where their mental model or way of seeing is not working for them. Their reality is not a true one. I am still working on ways to identify healthy paradigms and unhealthy paradigms. The thing that is at the center of you is usually the thing that defines your paradigm. Sometimes we are in need for a paradigm shift and Stephen Covey talks about a paradigm shift that happened from this story.
He was traveling in a subway, a man gets in with his two sons, the sons are running all over the place bothering the people, this continues, so he finally gets irritated enough to ask the father why he doesn't do something to control his kids. The father replies, "We just got back from the hospital where their mother died. I don't know how to handle it and I guess they don't either."
He had no idea what was going on in this mans life but he was annoyed. We have to consider those around us and where they are coming from which begins and ends with paradigms. So to all my friends, think about this because it helps you to become more aware.
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