Paradigm shifting: changing models without losing your bearings
«Nothing is true, everything is permitted» is repeated often and practiced rarely. Paradigm shifting is training, and like all training, it has a progression.
What it actually means
It doesn't mean believing in nothing: it means being able to fully adopt a model for the duration of an operation and putting it down afterwards, without your identity depending on it.
The criterion isn't the truth of the model but its performance: which symbolic language gets you into state most quickly for this specific goal.
A four-step progression
First: work for an entire month within a single paradigm, even one chosen at random, and write everything down.
Second: repeat the same operation in two different paradigms and compare the results and the states.
Third: adopt a belief that you find unpleasant for one week, with total seriousness. This is where flexibility is measured.
Fourth: return to the model that gives the best results knowing that you are choosing it, not being subjected to it.
The risk of easy relativism
Those who jump paradigms every week out of boredom aren't practicing: they are avoiding verification. Shifting makes sense when the previous model has been used enough to produce data.
The diary is the only antidote: without a log, paradigm shifting becomes just a consumption of aesthetics.
Original Italian version: read in Italian.