Let me tell you a story that might encourage you to understand that your paradigm determines what you see, irrespective of what you look at.
Two (separate) American shoe manufacturing companies send their top marketing specialists to investigate the market for shoes in Africa. After two weeks both of them reported back to their respective head offices.
Albert Einstein once said, “You cannot solve a problem with the same thinking that caused the problem.”
We all run into problems (or challenges as I like to call them). In our journey in life we get to these challenges mainly because of the way we think. The way we think (our paradigms) brought us to where we are today and if today has a challenge it could be attributed, amongst other reasons, to the way we thought yesterday and the day before that. 
Expand your thinking, think differently, shift your paradigm, but don’t use the same thinking to solve the problem. It is that “same thinking” that caused the problem in the first place and what makes you think the “same” thinking is (now) suddenly going to solve the problem? “You cannot solve a problem with the same thinking that caused the problem.”
