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10_4tina 's review for:
Thinking in Systems: A Primer
by Donella H. Meadows
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
This was excellent. It was super approachable and applicable to daily life outside of formal systems work. I really enjoyed it and want to read it again and own it. My job would not typically be thought of as heavily influenced by systems theory, but after reading this, I'm convinced most jobs are (mine included).
Best excerpt:
"There are no cheap tickets to mastery. You have to work hard at it. Whether that means rigorously analyzing a system or rigorously casting off your own paradigms and throwing yourself into the humility of not knowing. In the end, it seems that mastery has less to do with pushing leverage points than it does with strategically, profoundly, madly letting go and dancing with the system." - very end of chapter 6
Best excerpt:
"There are no cheap tickets to mastery. You have to work hard at it. Whether that means rigorously analyzing a system or rigorously casting off your own paradigms and throwing yourself into the humility of not knowing. In the end, it seems that mastery has less to do with pushing leverage points than it does with strategically, profoundly, madly letting go and dancing with the system." - very end of chapter 6