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Before i got a puppy i didnt really like dogs. I would always think they smelt and were annoying. Now that i have a puppy my whole perspective on dogs has changed. I now love dogs, and dont think there as annoying as i use to.
One time, when I was young... I thought the Earth was the center of the galaxy, and stuff like the Sun and other planets (Mars, man!) used the Earth as a central point for their rotation.
Then Galileo was like, "no dude, the Sun is the central point. But its ok, that theory used to be all the rage."
My paradigm was totally shifted at this point.
When I was in 7th grade, I was unwillingly placed in Technology Education with Mr. D (back when they actually had this class before they sold all the equipment to raise money for the district). Before taking the class, I was always really artsy and liked to create things, but was useless and had no desire to integrate technology to aid in my creations. After having to learn how to use CAD machines, flight simulators, and other technological systems, I learned that I actually enjoyed using technology to aid in the creation of things. Now, I am about to finish up my applications with engineering as my top pick for a major. What a paradigm shift!
Paradigm shift in my life...hmm we'll have to go with soccer. Basically, I figured soccer was what I could do with my entire life then start of high school kind of opened my eyes that it wouldn't be like that and I needed some new thing that I could do later in my life. Changed my thoughts of being a pro player and forced me to look at my own life and what I wanted to do with it. Boom paradigm shift...done.
I used to think school was a joke all the way up until freshman year because i always got good grades without trying. After junior year passed i decided to challenge myself before i went to college so i took some AP classes to challenge myself. This has challenged me and entirely changed my perspective on what school it really about.
When I first went to high school I thought I would actually get into UT, but once they put the top 10% rule in, it got my hopes down. So in the end the whole rule is dumb.
I used to believe in the church or at least that they spread good ideas, but after listening to many of them speak about gay rights and damning so many people to hell I have become disillusioned with the church.
I don't believe them to be a positive influence anymore
I think the biggest paradigm shift in my life involved my belief in the goodness of people. When I was little I, as all children do, I held the belief that all people had at least a spark of nicenss in their hearts and that everyone had the choice of being good and could change to become that way when they are not.
My belief has gone from this, to a more cynical, though realistic (in my opinion at least), view of the malice each person has proved capable of exerting. I no longer belief in the innocent goodness of everyone, but rather the irrevocable corruption of the populace.
I, too, love dogs. Don't have one because of all the work they require, but I do love them!
Longhorn Fan '09 - I need to know who you really are, if you want credit for your post!
I had a paradigm shift after I got my second dog. Before I thought my dog was annoying and smelly. It wasn't until I got my second one that I actually began to like my first dog. The second one was the stupidest creature in human history, and that made me realize how good my first dog is.
My paradigm shift came this past summer when I really dove into the recruiting process as a kicker in football. At the start I thought it might be slightly challenging but, I assumed some great division 1 school will certainly give me a full scholarship in no time at all. It turned out to be quite on the contrary however. Consequently my views shifted and I saw the recruiting world for what it was a down right dirty, difficult process. Also, i found out that there would be no immediate results, nooo! "Give it time", I was told.
So there you have it, consider my paradigm shifted.
Before I moved to Southlake, I lived in McKinney where I attended Good Shepherd Montessori School. When I moved to Southlake, I had to make the transition from private schooling to public schooling. It truly changed my perspective on education because the way that teachers approached education was totally different from my old teachers. I suddenly had to work much harder on my own to get my work done, unlike the one-on-one interaction I got at my old school. I became a better person because of it, and am glad I made that transition.
i think the 7 habits are important to business and school equally. In order to be successful in either field you need to be proactive and influence yourself instead of being influenced by factors you cannot prevent.
Throughout my life i have always been obsessed with baseball, and in the past 6 months i have not been able to play because of a fractured back. Earlier in my life i thought baseball was all i lived for, eat, breath and talk baseball. But now that it is not longer an option for me, i see that it is possible to live without it. And it opens up more possiblities.
I was once told that to have false hope is better than any hope at all. I asked around to see if most people believed this statement. When just about everyone responded with yes i realzied that the people of this world are pathetic. That they will honestly sit there and lie to themselves willingly knowing that in the end those "high" false hopes will come crashing down. That they can't face the truth and see it for what it really is. This is when I decided to change my outlook on life. I began to look in the mirror and realize that me, myself is the only being that can set me free.
A paradigm shift in my life would probably have to be hockey. Used to when i was little hockey was so easy and i used to think it would always be that easy and that i wouldn't have to work hard to make something out of myself for hockey. But as i started growing up and got into higher leagues where hitting started it changed the way i went at hockey.
I experienced a paradigm shift when I was in the 8th grade in anmial science. I had always had an intense fear of snakes, because a garden snake had latched onto my skin when I was little. I was finally persuaded to hold a snake. after holding a rather larger king snake, I learnt that snakes weren't such terrifying creatures. Consequently, my view shifted and my fear to subside when I encountered a snake.
Well, i'd say that the biggest paradigm shift im my life would be just after i bought my car. It is a pretty fast car and i felt that i could handle it, almost invincible. Of course i got in an accident while driving quite recklessly and nothing was more of a slap in the face. it changed my whole perspective while driving.
I would have to dissagree with megan about the innocence of people. Thought it might be very hard to see, I believe that all people have some good in them. It might just be that somewhere in life something happened that caused them to become cinical.
My paradigm shift came when i discovered music... I mean we all know music, but i never really had a true appreciation until i started playing guitar. After i picked up the guitar, i had alot more respect for music, considering that i could now see the creative process, and the raw talent that it took to create that piece of music. Well...that's when my paradigm was shifted.
I use to do jsut enough pass in school and did not try at all. After hearing all the talks on how important it was to do good to get into a good college I started working hard and became a way better student.
A paradigm shift in my life was in second grade. before that i had never realized that teachers had a life outside of school. I assumed that they lived in school. My class had a reading challenge thing and me and two other students won. Our prize was ice cream at milwaulkee joes. I had no idea that teachers drove anywhere and i was surprised she drove us from school. Now I know teachers exist outside of school.
After I moved to the US this summer, I realised how much my family means to me. I have been used to seeing them all the time, often too much. My sister was the most annoying person in my life and my mom was too controlling. After beeing seperated from them for 2 months now, I realise how much they mean to me and how much they do in my life.
I was against looking at small schools for colleges. Once i visited Trinity that changed my mind completely and now i like smaller schools.
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