Hi, welcome back to the Personality Hacker Podcast. My name is Joel Mark Witt.

And I'm Antonia Dodge. This is a time period right now where a light is being shone into dark places and a lot of

problems are being acknowledged or being identified and when we get into a place of identifying problems of

course the first thing we want to do is solve them right what's the point of

identifying a problem if you don't want to solve it?

But my observation has been that there's a life cycle to problems.

It's not just a matter of seeing something solving it and then being done with it

That there are entire systems that are being engaged with whenever we see a problem. So we like to talk a lot about systems

thinking and systems thinking is a way of experiencing reality that in my

opinion once you get into the habit of seeing things in terms of

systems it's really hard to go back and we've recorded podcasts on systems thinking

a couple different a couple different times. And systems thinking is effectively altering how you

understand why things become the way they become. Like we are usually taught to think in terms of cause and effect.

This thing is directly responsible for the thing that followed it. And in systems thinking, you basically remove that completely.

That is considered an erroneous or an accurate algorithm,

it's not even much of an algorithm to begin with, cause effect.

Instead, systems thinking says that every effect is actually the emergent of an

entire system running and each system has nodes.

Nodes are influences in the system or important leverage points in a system.

So the easiest way to understand system sinking is to look at things in terms of a car and how all of the relevant

parts of a car or nodes have to be running simultaneously in order for the car to turn over.

And if one of those parts isn't, then the car won't turn over.

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