“Why, then, ’tis none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. To me it is a prison. Well, then it isn’t one to you, since nothing is really good or bad in itself—it’s all what a person thinks about it.” This is from Shakespeare’s Hamlet Act 2 Scene 2. Little did I know that the above statement fits perfectly into today’s podcast. Today’s podcast is entitled Personal Paradigms. Paradigms was first introduced to me back in 1993. I was seven years into my personal recovery and was looking for a way to grow beyond the material I was currently involved with. The material was working; I wanted more. I knew there was more out there for me to go get it, I just didn’t know what it looked like or how to find it. A friend of mine had introduced me to Stephen Covey. Stephen had just produced “principle centered leader ship”. It was the first time I had heard about a paradigm. I was looking for a new way of thinking. This is what this podcast is all about.
Directions are best accompanied by a map. The more defined and accurate the map the more likely I am to get from point A to point B. Once we address the aspects of a paradigm and the personal application, we will then have a fuller understanding. We will dig a little deeper into this as we examine our present thinking.
If I am not where I want to be, then what adjustments do I need to make to get there?
First,
- What is a paradigm?
a philosophical and theoretical framework of a scientific school or discipline within which theories, laws, and generalizations and the experiments performed in support of them are formulated - Practical example of paradigm
- How do they affect us negatively and positively?
- Identifying erroneous paradigms
- Removing or displacing paradigms that are not consistent with our direction, commitment or environment
- Adopting new positive paradigms that are in alignment with our direction, commitment, environment
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Robert Pardon
Robert is the Recovery Guy. Getting clean and sober on April 25, 1986 has given me the insight and practical skill set to not only stay sober, but to also re-invent myself to the person I always wanted to become. Showing others how to do this is my life goal.
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