What Is The Right Way To Peel A Banana?
A number of years ago I was lecturing to a college class on the subject of paradigms. The word paradigm comes from the Greek, and means a model, theory, perception, assumption, or frame of reference. Thomas Kuhn, in his landmark book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, revealed how most breakthroughs come from breaks with old ways of thinking. While I was lecturing to my class I explained how each of us sees the world through our own paradigms or mental models. Kuhn suggested that a paradigm is prerequisite to perception itself. Stephen Covey says that our paradigms are like a pair of glasses. We get so used to our paradigms that we forget that we are interpreting everything we see through them all the time. We think we see things the way they really are. If someone sees the world differently, we automatically assume that person is wrong! Assumptions are an important part of the way we see the world. The Im right assumption is one of the most frequently encountered assumptions in
