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Developing a Systems Thinking Mindset – Epi-3574

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Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 91 minutes

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I have been on some level a systems thinker for most of my life, some components of it are just natural to me.  I would honestly say on the base level it is simply how I think.  When I was 17 I joined the Army and chose the path of being a Heavy Wheeled Vehicle Mechanic and learned systemic trouble shooting, which gave me a formal concept of “systems thinking”, however, I didn’t yet even know the term. In my early days of attempting to build a career I had a lot of friction with people I worked for.  I Continue reading →

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0:00.0

There's a better way to do this.

0:09.0

Let me show you a better way.

0:11.0

A better way.

0:21.0

And we are alive. Welcome folks to episode 3,574 of the survival podcast.

0:27.3

And it is Tuesday, October the 22nd, 2004. And today we are going to have just Jack Show. We're going to talk about

0:35.4

something I really love systems thinking and what I want to kind of do is an

0:41.8

intro is explain to you how I found out I was a systems thinker, not how I became one.

0:48.0

Then we'll do our housekeeping and then we'll go into 10 bullet points that explain systems thinking at a deeper level.

0:57.5

I want that part to be almost a little collegiate in format, so we're gonna we're gonna go deep into actual systems thinking if I

1:07.0

wanted to do this is like a if I did this like as a paid class like I do the paid

1:11.6

classes for home food systems, it would probably have 40 points.

1:15.9

So I just took 10 that I thought were the most important that would help you get your

1:19.5

head around this and help you become more of the systems thinker and find out that maybe you already are because I found

1:27.7

Realizing what systems thinking was was like when I first heard what libertarianism was.

1:33.0

Oh, that's what I am in the religious role.

1:36.5

When I found out what a deist was, I'm like,

1:38.7

oh, that's what I am.

1:40.3

When I found out what systems thinking really was I'm like oh that's why I piss everybody off

1:47.1

When I'm like but what if this and what if that and why don't we do this to make sure that that doesn't happen

1:51.8

Because people don't really like that in a lot of situations.

1:54.5

That was something I had a hard time learning as a young man when I had no right to be questioning

1:59.4

anything but yet I couldn't help myself. So to me, like, again, I was always doing this.

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