This information made me start to soak up the subject and search for more. Because from the outset many doubts arose in me; For example, what do you mean by sleeping well? How adequate are my own sleep habits to be a vibrant entrepreneur and top-performing runner?
And the more I searched, the more I realized that my way of sleeping responded to the culture where I live, because the truth was a real crap to make sleep a source of vitality. Little by little I drilled into my brain until I changed my paradigm and made good sleep a priority.
If you look closely, searching for information was in this case a way to break paradigms. And when you want to reinvent yourself, change your results in any field, breaking beliefs becomes a vital skill.
No matter how much you want to run, undertake or evolve in your profession, you will only see great leaps if you dare to question yourself and retire the beliefs that no longer serve you. The question then would be, how do I become a professional paradigm buster?
Here I share four tips for you to integrate this skill into your life: search, talk, question and experiment.
1. Search
I mean looking for information outside your environment, you have often heard this phrase of thinking outside the box, but to do so you need data, experiences, testimonies, stories outside your day-to-day environment. Your brain will make new associations and in a natural way the paradigms that are out of date will break.
Reading about how to sleep is a type of reading that I had never done. A friend recommended Mathew Walker’s book, Why do we sleep?a scientist who shows us, through data and research, the importance of learning to sleep in a tired society.
If I always read the same thing, I won’t be able to see other possibilities. That is why I propose the habit of reading information that can help you get out of the conventional.
2. Talk
Not only in books, documentaries or conferences, if you want to break paradigms, talk to people who live other realities than yours. It is incredible to talk with our old friends, but our environment is in the same box, get out of that box and talk regularly with people who make you make an effort to understand other points of view.
3. Question
If you want to drill paradigms, it is not enough to have new information, use that information to question yourself: is this really what I want? What if I did it differently? What if I start over? wrong? A professional paradigm screwdriver isn’t afraid to wonder; of course sometimes our methods, strategies and paths stand up to questioning because they are so good. Questioning ourselves helps us break them or reinforce them, always for the better.