So in this video I would like to go a little bit more academic on you if that's okay.
I know that much of what I've shared throughout the course so far has been experience based rather than
academia based but some academia does always have its place and I want to recommend a book for those
of you who are more rationally and academically minded is a book called The Structure of Scientific
Revolutions by an author in Mr. Thomas S. Kuhn.
No this is if this picture here is a fiftieth anniversary edition which means the book's quite old.
I think it's actually around about a fifty seven or fifty eight years old.
No.
And it kind of is what it says on the 10 when it talks about the Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
No reason why I'm building innocent to a life coach and course especially at the end of a core belief
system is because if you think about what science is science is just made up of men and women's ideas
that people study and seek to prove or disprove.
If an idea can be proven then a new paradigm is born and a new paradigm is born.
Then all the scientists then focus on this new paradigm to see there's any cracks in it to either prove
or disprove it or see it as anything better that can then replace that.
All right.
And this pretty much is the basis of all science is the foundation of philosophical thinking that I
mentioned earlier on in the course ideas build upon ideas knowledge builds upon knowledge.
All that I've really done through this course is you know hopefully give you a better understanding
of yourself.
Or I've just given structure to that which you have fundamentally already understood.
All right.
So this this is the main the main framework right.
The main idea that this book is kind of based on all right.
This is referred to us as the current cycle.
All right.
So I'm going to talk about science but then I'm also going to link the slides in with our own personal
beliefs to help you understand how it is that our beliefs can not be used to foundation to base our
life on because our beliefs are always changing.
All right.
So normal science normal science in our own words could be what's normal a normal life the way that
we see things just normal life us things are what we believe what we think is true or that kind of stuff.
Now here's the thing before you got into this life coaching course or before you started the journey
of personal growth you are most likely absolutely fine just going through life as you were going through
life and not really.
Perhaps even considering some of the larger more important questions of life.
Who am I.
What's the meaning of life.
What's the purpose of life.
Generally people don't change until the desire to change becomes greater than the desire to remain the
same.
So there's a pretty good chance that at some point in your past a day came or an experience came or
a point came that just removed the scales from your eyes and you said right.
That said I need to change something about my life the way that I'm living my life cannot remain the
same.
Something has got to give Something's gotta to break here.
All right.
And this is where our model of the world starts to drift starts to change.
And this is kind of what Thomas Kuhn is talking about.
So we start asking ourselves questions such such does you know.
So this belief is a way of looking at life.
Is this right.
Is this not right.
And why do I believe what I believe.
Why do I behave the way that I behave.
I just don't want to behave and be like this anymore I want something new I want to be better I want
to grow.
And when we start shifting away from that which is normal to us our current model of the world or current
way of looking at things our current world view or our current belief begins to to shake comes into
crisis.
Let's give you an example of this.
I guess I could go back to my time in the military and for around about a decade I was led to believe
by many of my military training instructors that being part of the military is kind of like the same
as being part of a superior human race.
So I ended up developing this set this false unhealthy state of confidence within myself my identity
my confidence and my inner security as a man was based upon my ability to perform and do well i.e. work
hard produce outcomes.
Now this was fine when I was producing outcomes but when I wasn't producing outcomes this would send
me into this place of absolute self destruction and enter the devastation may sound like extreme words
but sir there were extreme circumstances and extreme emotional experience.
So I think it was in 2000 and AIDS I about five years after leaving the military where I woke up one
day and I had pretty much devastated many of my relationships and because remember you know how aware
we are of ourselves determines how well we manage ourselves and back then I was not managing myself
well which meant that how I was marginal relationships was was also really quite destructive.
So I had offended people are and so if people are used people are abused people back then I was a very
very angry man quite manipulative in many many ways and I'd lost one of the you know pretty much one
of the final friends that I had an asset a model into crisis.
I can all live life like this anymore.
It's not I cannot I will not.
Everything will change.
Everything must change right now not tomorrow.
I'm not gonna go read some books and figure out how I could change what my options are I'm not going
to put in place a 20 page new plan around this.
Everything is gonna change right now I'm at a place of absolute desperation All right a place of absolute
necessity and science actually evolves in exactly the same way where science talks about paradigms.
We as human beings would refer to as beliefs but old paradigms are just simply ways of looking at things.
What is perceived or thought as being factual until what is thought as being factual is then proved
on factual or an accurate or flawed.
And this is kind of what happens in our own life through the stage of model crisis to model revolution.
No this can be.
This is generally going to be where your clients will be at all right.
Their current model of the world is in crisis.
Something is drastically not working for them right.
They're trapped in this in-between this place of their self esteem and self concept.
Their current state their ideal state they're in-between where they currently are and where they want
to be right.
The model revolution is all about taking the new steps it's about acquiring the new learnings you know
developing the new perspective the new art etude the new levels of understanding even shifting stepping
out of some old mindsets some old belief systems and into something better.
I'm not saying that we're going to be stepping into what is universally true but we're just gonna be
stepping into something that's better that serves us in a more effective way.
And this brings us into a place of model revolution.
No.
Give you a give you an honest example here.
So my model crisis are hard.
When I was living in New Zealand I'd sabotaged many of our most important relationships.
And when things got to the pinnacle of chaos I ended up deciding that I was going to give my life a
complete drastic overhaul.
I ended up going to this church group which was fantastic and it wasn't that it was really so much into
all the hardcore religious stuff all right.
But you know I did fully immersed himself in study.
I wanted to understand what this group of people understood that I didn't understand and took I took
many of the principles applied many of them to myself and the purpose wasn't to become religious.
The purpose was to learn and grow and become a better more valuable version of me and my model of the
world completely transformed.
And my model.
Red Revolution.
What it didn't have was a complete picture.
I didn't have the full story I didn't have all the answers all right but my outlook on life became different
because through the phase of life what I was having this religious experience if you like it wasn't
so much the religion they're born into but what I did buy into was the way in which many of these people
interacted with each other and I compared how many of these families were interacting with each other
to you know how I used to interact and treat many of my past relationships and this gave me a complete
paradigm change Clarence rather than to approach my relationships from the other three to four can I
guess.
What can I get started approaching my relationships from the outside of what can I give.
What can I give.
Understanding that unless people are finding value in me they're not going to want that much to do with
me anyway.
And this then became my new new normal new way of doing life right.
And then from there.
And I find that you know as I gave people started make a difference in other people's lives I found
more fulfillment in the context of my own life.
And this was fine but I couldn't just keep it to myself.
I then decided I would start coaching and teaching and sharing with other people and and them fish he
will eat for today.
Well through here I learned how to you know be on the receiving end of fish.
And then one more lap of the cycle.
And I learned how to teach other people how to fish.
And then it was a couple more cycles it took me to figure out how to teach other people how to teach
people how to fish so that together we can end world hunger.
And this is a perfect example of Fort Koon was talking about in terms of paradigm change.
We're all going to be operating life on a level and as a life coach once you finish this course you're
going to go hopefully away and do something with these learnings.
You're going to go away and either complete dismiss them or you're going to go away and apply them to
yourself in which case you're hopefully going to start benefiting from some degree of growth and change
and improvement in your life.
Or you might get out there and start coaching other people through the process of making shifts in their
thinking and their paradigms.
Or at some point in the future you might go on to become a coach of Coach choose a trainer of trainers
a mentor of mentors and start changing the world on a group on a global scale.
But what I'm seeing here is life is that is the process and this is the natural order of change.
We will not change into our desire to change becomes greater than our desire to change and this is just
generally where people need to be.
If we're going to serve them most effectively through our coaching endeavors.
All right.
He was the easy enough idea.
Listen if you do want a better understanding of this I'm not saying that this is the easiest read in
the world but it certainly will give you a grounded understanding of how it is that and one of the science
paradigm shifts happen.
And if you can relate that idea to what I've shared with you here and exactly the same way you can gain
a grounded insight and understanding of how it is that people's beliefs also change over time.
This is a structure of scientific revolutions.
So we find this interesting and I'll see you again in the next clip.
We're going to prepare to start wrapping this section of the course up.