Sunday, April 25, 2010

Success: Paradigm and Paradigm Shift


On this topic, you may also like to read (Paradigm and Paradigm Shift) at http://paradigm-mindset.blogspot.com/

In my earlier post “Success in Life (http://shyam.bhatawdekar.net/index.php/2010/03/21/success-in-life/)” I have discussed the broader dimensions of success and then I have started jotting down the ways to achieve such a success starting with the post “Success: Effectiveness and Efficiency http://shyam.bhatawdekar.net/index.php/2010/03/30/success-effectiveness-and-efficiency/)” and “Sharpen Your HSoftware (Human Software) http://shyam.bhatawdekar.net/index.php/2010/04/06/sharpen-your-hsoftware-human-software/)”

Another important next logical step one must take to achieve success in life (in personal, family, professional and social life) is “Paradigms and Paradigm Shift”.

In my earlier post, “Sharpen Your HSoftware (Human Software) http://shyam.bhatawdekar.net/index.php/2010/04/06/sharpen-your-hsoftware-human-software/)” I mentioned about the need to sharpen one’s HSoftware (Human Software) which consists of values, knowledge, paradigms and will power (to do) and so, in fact, I had already covered “paradigms” there. So, why am I repeating it? It is because despite possessing great value structures and great knowledge, many people just cannot change their paradigms. I had given one example of this in my same post how people get stuck with these rigid paradigms and if these paradigms happen to be retrograde, then there is a huge problem ahead of them.

And it is due to “paradigms” that a person’s day to day actions and behavior are decided. So, questioning your paradigms whether they are effective or ineffective, right or wrong is an important aspect of your life if you wish to be successful. More correct paradigms will lead you to the path of success, the less correct ones or wrong ones will lead you another path which may not lead you to success.

For example, some people have a rigid paradigm of loving their own mother tongue and they start believing that it is not necessary to learn other languages to the extent they may even hate other languages. Loving one’s own mother tongue is a good paradigm but not learning other languages or hating them is a backward paradigm. So the people who get stuck with this paradigm will never attempt to learn a new language (say, English which is pretty much used language in the most places of the world these days). This will put them to disadvantage in many aspects of their personal, professional and social life.

So, the person having such a paradigm problem must question his paradigm, get more knowledge about the advantages of learning the popular languages of the world and use the will power to start learning them.

This is how one shifts from a rigid paradigm and becomes flexible and shifts to a more effective or advanced paradigm.

So, by questioning one’s existing paradigms which are hundreds of them in every one’s mind, one can know which paradigms to shift from so as to adopt a better new paradigm that can lead one to success.

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Success: Sharpen Your HSoftware (Human Software)

In my earlier post “Success in Life (http://shyam.bhatawdekar.net/index.php/2010/03/21/success-in-life/)” I have discussed the broader dimensions of success and then I have started jotting down the ways to achieve such a success starting with the post “Success: Effectiveness and Efficiency http://shyam.bhatawdekar.net/index.php/2010/03/30/success-effectiveness-and-efficiency/)”.

This is the next post in the series of “how to achieve the success in life?” In this post I have emphasized that the person desirous of success must continuously improve his “Human Software (HSoftware)” (a term created by me).

So, as per “The Shyam Bhatawdekar Model of Effectiveness: HSoftware”, human effectiveness depends on following four factors:
  • Values
  • Knowledge base (rational intelligence IQ, emotional intelligence EQ and spiritual intelligence SQ- nothing to do with established religions or gods)
  • Paradigms (mindsets or thinking patterns)
  • Will power to do

These entire four factors are so very highly integrated or intertwined or interdependent with each other that one has to look at all of them together simultaneously. And at times, even improving one factor does not necessarily and always provide the right impact of improving the other though one depends on the other.

For example, some god men perform certain miracles and their followers who may be in millions feel impressed by them and believe in their godly powers. These god men themselves proclaim to possess such powers. Exactly the same miracles are performed by the well known magicians. Their objective is to just entertain the people many of whom might be the followers of these god men also. But the magician always insists that he just performs some intelligent tricks and not the miracles and the spectators look at the magic nothing but the tricks. But tell the same people to start seeing the godly acts or miracles performed by their god men as mere tricks or magic, a large majority of them not only do not accept it, they feel terribly offended. Though these people have improved their knowledge base about these magical tricks, their paradigm (mindset) towards accepting god men as performing real godly miracles remains intact. They continue to remain the followers of these god men on the basis of the miracles performed by them. Perhaps their will power to change their paradigms about the god men’s capability of performing miracles falls short somewhere. Now the will power to carry out the required change further depends on some more additional pieces of knowledge and unless they acquire that additional knowledge, the will to do or act in the right direction will not get activated fully.

So, if one has to become effective and efficient, one will have to keep on working incessantly to improve the four factors (HSoftware) mentioned above and keep changing for better.

You may also like to refer: (Management in Life, Profession and Family: The Shyam Bhatawdekar Effectiveness Model: HSoftware) http://knol.google.com/k/shyam-bhatawdekar/management-in-life-profession-family/6txz9nck6g3/3# or (The Shyam Bhatawdekar Effectiveness Model: HSoftware) http://humansoftware.blogspot.com/ or (Human Software- HSoftware) http://human-software-hsoftware.blogspot.com/