ON TRANSCENDING PARADIGMS

What are you curious about right now?

This is one of my favorite questions to replace our less fun “What do you do?”

Donella Meadows, the legendary systems thinker, environmental action taker and brilliant writer shared her deep insight on places to intervene in a system.

Accessing the power to transcend paradigms is at the top of that list.

“We can do better than a simple paradigm shift! Honouring multiple ways of knowing and making sense of the world means moving beyond the pendulum swings of so called “paradigm shifts.”

“We need to learn how to value the contribution of multiple paradigmatic positions in full awareness that each of them comes with its own blind-spots — bringing some aspects of reality into sharper focus at the expense of ignoring others. Too often throughout the course of human history have we ‘thrown out the baby with the bathwater’ as we replaced one dominant paradigm with another.”

I have seen how one of the ways for us to transcend paradigms can be to follow our curiosity.

What are you curious about right now?

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Quotes from Daniel Christian Wahl inspired by Donella Meadows inspired by Buddhism, you find Daniel's article right here.