Breaking paradigms
I always shoot videos, addressing human issues and connecting issues to the business or project world.
I do this to take your vision out of the box a little and take your mind to walk with me in another dimension. Soon after I build a logic that makes sense to you about an outside issue, I get into the subject that concerns the company or a personal and professional project that needs to be rethought.
Different mentors have used this technique throughout history and can break down barriers of point of view or vision conditioning.
My goal is to give you wings so that you can see the process in a freer way, with other variables in the subject we are talking about. In a way, we are hostages to the paradigms we believe or conditioned to act under.
The wall that appears halfway from where you are to where you want to go, or the abyss that separates the solution from the problem that insists on remaining over time, often in the paradigms that insist on determining their limitations. To break a paradigm, it is necessary to see things in other ways. And this is possible and even necessary these days.
I live as a digital nomad because the exercise of living in different cultures with different values breaks my paradigms and gives me conditions to see things in different ways. I use this experience to enrich my work as a mentor and strategic designer. One of my icons as mentor to Peter Drucker, who in addition to his unique business vision, had a broad vision of society from his studies and research in various areas. Thus, through sources from other areas with the area in which he worked, Peter developed theories and skills.
You look at your business today, but you must look at it tomorrow and tomorrow will only make sense if you exercise a vision of the future, outside the paradigms that exist today.
It has never been more important to broaden the horizon of vision and eliminate barriers.
Opt for bridges, even if the connection is still weak at first. Time and the changes it brings can always bring new possibilities and their relationships and gains will follow.
Choose to see things differently. In the film Dead Poets Society, the teacher asks students to climb on their desks and see things differently in a traditional American school. This physical exercise joined a series of teasing that teacher making those students look at things differently. Obviously, when you change the way you see and act, the resistances of the previous paradigm start defending the status quo. It is normal and systemic and often inhibits and eliminates movement and even the chances of a new solution, a better life and a more competitive company.
What to do?
Continue !
Continuing is an option. The comfort of the past can turn into discomfort in the present, the security of the present can turn into the insecurity of the future, but little by little, the new meaning generates experiences and adaptations, making us more flexible. We need to break away from the limitations that are imposed on us by others, but also by ourselves. Challenging us is necessary too.
And from challenge to challenge, from novelty to novelty, we build new versions of ourselves. Better versions are not perfect because changes occur to generate more imperfection according to previous paradigms. Still, more current, freer versions, more adapted to the unstable and uncertain future that contemporaneity offers and demands.