Joel Barker. He says, “A paradigm is a set of rules and regulations written or unwritten that does two things. It establishes or defines the boundaries, and it tells you how to behave inside those boundaries in order to be successful.” It establishes boundaries and then determines how you should behave inside those boundaries in order to be successful. Why is this? Because people have certain paradigms of expectations of us, and that defines their boundaries of us. And then if we’re not living within