Paradigm. Why did I choose it as the name of my blog? Because it’s a powerful word. It says more in eight letters than many entire books say from cover to cover. Let’s look at the word itself.
Paradigm– pronounced as para-dime is defined as “a model or pattern of thinking that is repeatedly used.” It’s like wearing sunglasses on a bright afternoon. Everything you see has to go through the lens of those glasses and into your eyes before your brain can tell you what you’re seeing. If you wear yellow tinted glasses, the world will look jaundiced. And if you wear super-polarized lenses you might think it’s dusk, even when it’s midday. Everything you see will be tinted by the sunglasses you choose to wear. A person sitting on the rooftop of a skyscraper might be inspired by the incredible view, or terrified by the possibility of falling. Energized by beauty or paralyzed by fear, it all depends upon his paradigm– his repeated pattern of thinking– about heights.
