From this understanding, ah! This whole
paradigm opens up. This whole paradigm.
And I need to explain to you what a
paradigm is, in a story  (what a surprise).
A paradigm, is like a lens an imaginary
lens or a conceptual lens that sort of
covers my eyes not covers but a lens,
through which all the information that I
perceive gets filtered through. So
if I had an entrepreneurial paradigm,
then my mind would perceive business
opportunity everywhere. Ok?
So, the story I have to illustrate the magnitude of
paradigm is with a guy called Johnny, and
when Johnny was born... the doctor
surgically attached red lenses to
Johnny's eyes. So by the time Johnny is
45, how does he see the world?
(audience talking)
Red, yeah? So, it's not as simple as that.
There is an objective truth and then
there is that which is subjectively true, for Johnny.
So the object of truth is yes
he sees everything is red. okay.
Fact. Because he's got these lenses on. But for Johnny,
Johnny just sees the world!
He's completely unaware, of the fact, that
there's this red thing... he would say to
you, "what's red?" And you'd try to now
explain to him without another frame of
reference. It would be like trying to
explain to a fish that doesn't jump, what water is.
Ok? So here's the thing if you
old Johnny that he had red lenses on
you'd be challenging his model of
reality and the first thing that Johnny
would do is he would cross his arms like
this and he would say "You don't know me!
What are you talking about red? What doctor? you don't know me!" and he'd get
really defensive because you'd be
challenging his model of reality.
The very thing that's keeping everything
together.
 
