8 The Ultimate Leverage Point

“The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.”

Thomas Kuhn, Physicist, historian and philosopher of science

“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. Go – before I lose my temper! The Great and Powerful Oz has spoken…”

When I was a little boy, I loved the film The Wizard of Oz, but I was frightened of the Wicked Witch of the West and her flying monkeys. On some level, I didn't understand that those monkeys were just people in costumes, and couldn't escape from the television screen.

I didn't understand the nature of film.

Hallucinations

One of my first ever coaching clients had a dog phobia. I asked her “How do you know when to ...

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