13 HABITS OF A SYSTEMS THINKER
The Water Foundation has identified 13 Habits of a Systems Thinker.
- Seeks to understand the “big picture”
- Observes how elements within systems change over time, generating patterns and trends
- Recognizes that a system’s structure generates its behavior: focuses on structure, not on blame
- Identifies the circular nature of complex cause and effect relationships, i.e. interdependencies
- Changes perspectives
- Surfaces and tests assumptions
- Considers an issue fully and resists the urge to come to a quick conclusion
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The “habits of mind” – the routines of the affective system – enable us to associate those emotions (and feelings that follow them) with the corresponding experiences.
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