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Your attitude and behavior are a function of your paradigm. For example: It’s Sunday morning, you are enjoying a quiet ride in the subway – no crowds. A man with several children gets on. The children act rowdy, shouting, disturbing others. You become irritated and finally say “Sir, your children are really disturbing a lot of people, I wonder if you couldn’t control them a little more.” The reply comes slowly: “I guess I should… We just came from the hospital… Their mother just died about an hour ago and I guess… I don’t know what to think…. I guess they don’t know how to handle it either…” You have just experienced a paradigm shift that puts the situation in new light. We all see things differently. Similar to putting someone else’s glasses on. We would see things distorted, but they don’t see things that way.