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I’m waiting for the six books I ordered from amazon.com. Yesterday, I went to the bookshop and grabbed Leander Kahney’s Inside Steve’s Brain.

I obviously want to know more about Steve Jobs and I would also like to know whether the book lives the claim “Inside his brain” or not.

I thought about it and in order to be inside someone’s brain, you need to be more than looking from his point of view. I’d like to borrow the unfinished series of Mike King, the six issues required to maximise your productivity; perspective, attitude, focus, persistence, adventure, and connections. I am waiting for the explanations of all of these but I could not wait so, hey, I’ll try them first (sorry, Mike :))

In order to be inside someone’s brain; not only you have to see from his perspective, your need to feel his attitude, you need to focus on the same focus, your level of persistence must be similar, you need to experience the same adventure, and you need his absolute connections.

An absolute paradigm shift.

I believe it will be an ultimate freedom if you can liberate your paradigm and let it flow to the place or person you want it to be, any time.

To be paradigm-free.

Paradigm is a pattern, the world, or the model one must have. Your paradigm dictates how you think, feel, live, breathe, or perceive.

If you can liberate your paradigm; you can fully control your choice, as Steven Covey put it in “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”; the choice comprises of “self-awareness”, “imagination”, conscience”, and “independent view”.

If you can not only liberate your paradigm, but also be inside someone else’s paradigm and thoroughly understand their choices.

The question is: “How can you be paradigm-free?”

I, for one, do not know. But wouldn’t it make the world a better place if people “understand” other people better.

I’m not saying that people should know what other people think but “why” other people think that.

Knowing “what” other people think will lead the world to chaos, absolute anarchy

Knowing “why” other people think will lead the world to peace, ultimate happiness

That would make this world a better place.

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“You may say I’m a dreamer,

but I’m not the only one.”

My breaking news this weekend was that I had a fan in digg! Not really a fan in that sense but at least somebody found my blog interesting. His name is “Mike King” and his blog is Learn This which is a gem about self-improvement. I sensed strongly that his blog sounds much like Steven R. Covey or maybe I just haven’t read enough book! And I found his latest post on “Maximum Productivity” very interesting indeed.

From his post “Maximum Productivity” involves six topics

1. Perspective

2. Attitude

3. Focus

4. Persistence

5. Adventure

6. Connections

I, again, do not want to be a smartarse- know-everything-amateur-blogger but I want to raise a “perspective” from his latest post “Maximum Productivity: Perspective”. He divided the post into three parts; first you need to understand “productivity” and how it can be applied to your life, second, you need to know your true “identity”. And finally, you need to know who you do it for.

You can read in great details and insight from his post.

My question is “Is perspective enough and long-lasting?”

I do believe that changing and expanding perspective is going to help you maximise (or improve) your productivity substantially but I am doubtful whether the change you bring to your perspective, to your mind, to your belief is going to last in the long run.

Perspective is, by my definition, “how” you look at things, situations, or your life and “what” it is (they are) that you interpret. It is when two different persons look at things and intepret them differently; because they have different perspectives. And if you can change your perspective to the better, you can change “how” you react to things, tackle problems, or manage situations and you can change “what” you believe they are.

However, my point is that “how” and “what” are difficult to manage unless you have tremendous discipline in yourself. Because “perspective” of ourselves resides in, an overused-and-I-will-use-it-again word, our paradigm.

Paradigm, by my definition, is also a “how” but unlike “perspective” which is “how” then “what”; “paradigm” is “why” then “how”.

Our process is;

Paradigm is before you start processing the input, it is “why” things or situations came to your mind in the first place and “why” you perceive it. It is “why” you think of nice and fancy cars while priests and monks never thought of it. It is “why” beggars and homeless people think of the food while you don’t think of it until you are hungry.

I’ll get back to paradigm later.

I owe a big thank to Mike King who inspired me to think of this, to put this issue to my “perspective”.