1. Our worldview largely determines the kind of experience we will have, because it is a filter which excludes a lot in the process selection, and as a corollary often ends up condemning what has been excluded.
2. A whole set of attitudes, beliefs, values, assumptions and expectations, about which we are not even aware most of the time, determine "what" we see and "what" meaning we assign to it, because these mindsets act as filters that determine the colour and nature of our experience.
3. Because of lack of awareness of their paradigm, people often make sweeping statements like "That's the way I am", although a process of self-evaluation will alert us to the trap inherent in many of our hardcore beliefs.
4. It is also important to realise that those whom our beliefs condemn have perceptions which they consider as valid and hold with equal if not more conviction, to the extent that aggressive people will sense threats where others would not, and respond with more aggressiveness, as their outlook inclines their thinking towards paranoia.
5. Negative attitudes are conducive to depression, which leads to weakening of the immune system and a proneness to further depression, if not a permanent disease.
6. Even organizations are controlled by paradigms, because the beliefs, attitudes and values which are widely shared by people in organizations affect the way they think and perform, which can be witnessed in the functioning of bureaucracies and management of various governmental and commercial institutions.
2. A whole set of attitudes, beliefs, values, assumptions and expectations, about which we are not even aware most of the time, determine "what" we see and "what" meaning we assign to it, because these mindsets act as filters that determine the colour and nature of our experience.
3. Because of lack of awareness of their paradigm, people often make sweeping statements like "That's the way I am", although a process of self-evaluation will alert us to the trap inherent in many of our hardcore beliefs.
4. It is also important to realise that those whom our beliefs condemn have perceptions which they consider as valid and hold with equal if not more conviction, to the extent that aggressive people will sense threats where others would not, and respond with more aggressiveness, as their outlook inclines their thinking towards paranoia.
5. Negative attitudes are conducive to depression, which leads to weakening of the immune system and a proneness to further depression, if not a permanent disease.
6. Even organizations are controlled by paradigms, because the beliefs, attitudes and values which are widely shared by people in organizations affect the way they think and perform, which can be witnessed in the functioning of bureaucracies and management of various governmental and commercial institutions.