Do remember that I was talking about paradigms and we mentioned paradigms. And we're gonna talk about this right now. And specifically, I mentioned the paradigm of machine, which is opposed to the paradigm of nature. These are two opposite ways of looking at reality. Remember that reality has no meaning whatsoever, we give it a meaning. And the paradigms are the lenses that we use through which we try to understand and interpret reality.

So because we all have these lenses, we all have kind of some lenses of some kind. We can do without lenses, we wouldn't see anything without these lenses. And the machine paradigm is a lens that with which I see reality as a machine. Something that I can control. Now, guess who's driving you to think that way? Right?

Your inner control system, it wants to control. So it needs to see your reality as a machine. And that's what we'll be talking about now. So it's a very important lesson. Let's see what a paradigm is. a paradigm, as I said, is a mental model.

It's a lens. It's a filter, through which I absorb information coming from the outside. And when I gather all this information, my mind through this paradigm interprets those events. Without a paradigm, we wouldn't be able to interpret those events. It wouldn't they would be meaningless for us, they acquire meaning because of our paradigms. So this is what a paradigm is.

Now there are two great that well, there are many many paradigms, but these as far as the systems are concerned with, there are two major ones Another pilot, for example, another couple of paradigms which are always opposite our abundance and scarcity, but that's something else. We'll discuss this in another in another video course. For now, for the time being, as far as we're concerned, right now, as far the systems are concerned, the two paradigms are, as I said, I'm gonna ship the washing machine party guy, I made it more specific and the blank paradigm the first one wants to control the second one controls through knowledge. You see, one is directed fro and the other ones if I know how nature works, I can control it. It goes back to what Francis Bacon said remember, so, why a washing machine? Consider this you need a washing machine.

So you go to the store and he talked to the clerk and the guys museum shows you Have a few washing machines and you see one that that's pretty interesting for you. He has the right programs, the right things looks good, nice design, the whole thing. He says, I like this one, I'll buy this one, you take it home, you put in all your clothes that have to be washed, whatever. It works for a certain amount of time, then then one point it stops, it doesn't work anymore. So you get kind of irritated. You go to the store and says look, the machine and the washing machine is not working.

I paid for the depth thing I want the machine to work to see this is exactly the same way we look at business as a machine. We are business owners, we want to invest. So we put the money in that in that business. And we have all kinds of elements all kinds of systems with like a car for example, in any machine that it has different installations inside and, for example, you have production, you have logistics, you have marketing, f sales, you have this and that. And you expect these things to work. Because you pay for it, right?

You're paying people to do their job. And you invest on all kinds of resources, on trading on equipments on whatever. So you're putting in all the money, you're putting in all the effort, and you expect the business to work. If it doesn't work, you're gonna blame somebody. Exactly. Like you're gonna blame the clerk, or the producer of this on this machine.

That's how we operate. And it works the same way in marriages with our children, everywhere. When we have a machine paradigm, we see reality as a machine. And everybody has a machine that has buttons through which we want to control them. So for example, somebody that has something that we don't want, we personally, the young button, we bark at the person so that the person gets either scared or perhaps response back. But the the idea was to control that person by pushing the button.

And as you see, it may not work. Or perhaps it will work for the time being. But perhaps for the month in my six months or one year down the line, it's going to get back at you. So we have to change this paradigm and move to the next paradigm which is the plant paradigm. Why do you want to but why would anybody want to buy a plant, it doesn't do anything and there's no any service. It has no purpose except one.

It's nice. We like it for because of the green because there are a lot of content in nature. It's just beautiful with that. So that's the reason we wanted for the same reason why would want to have a dog and you have to get the sleep and everything To clean him up and everything, and you say for a little affection. And yet we have dogs when we want children. They're a nuisance, right?

They don't make you sleep at night and make you worry. So they have all kinds of concerns. You have to educate them, whatever. Why would you want that? That goes against the machine paradigm. And sometimes we dissociate from all these things from adults, even from our children, because of the machine paradigm.

But when you adopt the plant paradigm, and you say, wait a second, I believe that I want it because I like it. I love it. It gives me pleasure. However, in order for it to give me pleasure, it's not that you buy a plant, you put it there and just stand there waiting. Okay, come on, give me your leaves, give me your flowers, whatever. That doesn't work that way.

Right. We have to give it a minute. Whatever and you have to give it sunlight, you have to give him air, you have to give all sorts of things, you have to care of it. And you have to cut a few leaves now and then take out and take care of it. You have to take care of the soil in which it has done his roots. And you have to do all these things.

So not only you have to pay for it, but you even have to work for it in order for it to give you what you want. And hear the same way for business. It works the same way. You have no Do you have to invest? Not only do you have to pull the resources, but in order for you for that business to give you back what you want. He didn't have to take care of it.

He didn't have to follow it. It doesn't say, well, there's that guy who Weston would make sure that things work in that department. It's not up to me, I pay him he has to take care of it. Well, to a certain extent that is good work. But if the person has some difficulty in doing his job, whether it's bigger or smaller in a region So not it doesn't really matter. But if he has a problem, you have to go to that person and help him do his job.

Perhaps you have to do once, perhaps you have to do that twice, until he can do it on its own. And this is just an example just to make him understand that because you have a business that you're leaving, doesn't mean that it's working for you. You are working for the business. That's the idea. But when you have if you have a machine paradigm, you cannot accept this. It's not acceptable for you.

If only it is only acceptable for you if you make a paradigm shift, as we've said in previous lessons, when you make that shift, then you will see your business in a different way. Okay. Now let's see how we can have this intercultural system work a lot better