Paths to Success

Paths to Success

This book, Paths to Succeed, by Colin Turner was a pretty good read. It was a good book to get me motivated to think a little differently than I normally would. It reminded me a lot of the book that we had to read for our business seminar class, which is 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. I felt that most of the material in this book could be used on an everyday basis, and could be used to improve our outlook on the world, and how we go about doing our daily activities. This could apply to business, social situations, and every day errands.

This first chapter of this book was a good refresher for me on paradigm shifts and how people perceive certain situations. I liked how the author described a paradigm shift using the example of a chauvinist pig almost being hit by a woman driver who then yells "pig" at the male driver. Thinking that she is calling him a pig, he replies "cow". The woman was trying to help the man by saying that there is a pig in the middle of the road, but the man is so conditioned to thinking that he is being called a pig that he does not realize that she actually meant there was a pig. After the man hits the pig, he has an instant paradigm shift. I thought that this was a great example, and it helped me understand what a paradigm shift was a little better. The perception of the pictures in the book is also a review for me. Being a Psychology major, I have taken classes about the differences in perception, and how it can be influenced. I thought that the author did a very good job of explaining paradigms, paradigm shifts, and why these shifts are so important for society to change its views and perceptions.

In the second chapter,