Hey, this is Leo, for Actualized.org.

And in this episode, I'm going to be talking about understanding how paradigms work,

and this very sneaky phenomenon of paradigm lock. It is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might have possibly gone wrong.

A quote by G. K K Chesterton.

If you want to experience massive growth quickly

and you want to get to the root of most of your issues in life, then you really need to study and

understand how paradigms work and this phenomenon that I call paradigm lock.

This is a very in-depth episode, a very foundational episode.

We're going to cover one of the most important topics

that you can possibly understand for understanding all of life

is this notion of paradigms and paradigm lock.

So stay with me.

It's going to be a little bit abstract at first,

but by the end of it, you'll see a lot of practical applications

and this is some very mind-blowing stuff.

So first, let's talk about what a paradigm is.

In the second half the episode, we'll get to paradigm lock and what that phenomenon is.

So what is a paradigm? The definition of it would be

something like a philosophical or theoretical framework of any kind, including

all of the assumptions and ways of thinking and ways of interpretation that one might have.

So think of a paradigm as a self-contained view of reality, like a lens a

paradigm as a self-contained view of reality, like a lens, a colored lens that you look through.

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