The Structure of Scientific Revolutions 50th Anniversary Edition

I read this book, we were bonding over this book called the structure of scientific revolution and it, and, um, and by the other way, the other thing you get from reading fiction is not only creativity and imagination, um, but also empathy.

There's a book called The Structure of Scientific Revolution, and I think it's kind of boring. But what I got out of it is most innovation comes from people outside your industry.

I like the idea of Chester Tins when you find a fence figure out what it was for before you tear it down and sometimes you know maybe that fence is for something bad and it's okay to tear it down I'm not saying no one should ever defy expectation but what I am saying is when someone is defying expectations when they are tearing down fences that very clearly have a person of course there's a sense of entitlement there.

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

have you have you read a structure of scientific revolutions by Thomas yeah you know he taught we think science is this like brilliant genius has a breakthrough that turns the world upside down but as you know it's it's this slow accumulation of things not adding up the old theory not holding true anymore that eventually encourages someone to come up with something new and then that's what they call a paradigm shift and I think uh you know we think that's an epiphany but actually it's this kind of slow slumbering updating of of how you see yourself

Now this was something brought out about 30 years ago. A guy named Thomas Kuhn wrote this in a book called The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

In it he put that the fact that there's no such thing as value neutrality.

You know, 20 years ago, before Thomas Kuhn began to sort of sink down into modern thinking, he used to read... When I came out of college, the counseling textbooks always said, if you're going to counsel somebody, you must do it value neutral. You must never impose your values on anybody. Never. If somebody sits in front of you and gives you a problem, you must be value neutral.

You must not tell that person what's right or wrong, but let them work it out for themselves. But you see, in light of just experience, the most recent counseling textbooks insist and admit that that's impossible.

There is no way, Thomas Kuhn said 30 years ago, to be value neutral. Everything that you see, everything that you question is on the basis of some kind of faith commitment.