Let me come straight to the point. Life is meant to be lived with a vertical gaze. Think about it. It’s true from the time we are born and beyond. Babies first learn to make eye contact looking up. Toddlers learn to walk by looking up toward their destination, almost always with hands raised high. Looking up is how we first learn, and how learning is always done. It is an obvious, inescapable fact.
Child to parent. Pupil to teacher. Apprentice to master. Creature to his Creator.
The real problem arrives when we think we’re big enough to shift our learning posture and begin looking down. It first happens when we convince ourselves that there is no one in the room “bigger than me.” My father called it being “too big for your britches,” and whenever I heard him use that phrase it never turned out so well for me.
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.
