4.3.2 范式辨别

Realizing that paradigms exist and have a significant impact on how the world functions is the first step in developing the skill of paradigm discernment. Almost all aspects of current economies that are dysfunctional and everything that is being changed are influenced by paradigms that are insufficiently reflective of a complex, dynamic world. What a paradox that the only approaches to solving these issues that everybody is aware of are based on the same concepts. Einstein’s oft-quoted advice to seek a remedy from a different scale than the one at which the issue was formed is applicable here since society is caught in a self-reinforcing cycle that can only be solved through a paradigm change.

使用这些知识来评估当前与经济学相关的思维和计划的性质是发展范式识别的下一阶段。人们必须克服听信既定权威和机构的倾向。相反，人们应该仔细考虑他们的思想从何而来。如果人们接受他们的基本前提，他们得出的结论就有意义。但是，应该相信这些公理吗？他们传达了什么 the underlying paradigms? At the same time, it’s also important to get over the propensity to dismiss concepts that are strange or challenging to understand out of hand. They should also be investigated for the underlying paradigms. The goal in both situations—comfortable or uncomfortable—is to develop paradigm awareness.

The third level entails moving away from passively witnessing paradigms at work in the outside world and starting to actively employ this consciousness to ourselves, employing it to improve one’s thinking, working, communicating, and relating throughout the day. This entails developing the capacity to plan ahead in order to start from the proper level of paradigm. It entails developing the ability to immediately notice and, if necessary, change the paradigms that are influencing one’s behavior. It also entails being aware of how one’s decisions affect other people and developing the ability to see how paradigms affect the will and conscientiousness of certain people, groups, or systems. This will increase awareness of unconscious paradigms’ pervasiveness and how simple it is to present an idea or a question that accidentally prompts a reaction from a level lower of paradigm in others than the circumstance calls for.