Learn To Think in Systems Quotes

“Long-term solutions usually take a long time, a lot of effort, and sacrifice.”
― Albert Rutherford, Learn To Think in Systems: Use System Archetypes to Understand, Manage, and Fix Complex Problems and Make Smarter Decisions

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― Albert Rutherford, Learn To Think in Systems: Use System Archetypes to Understand, Manage, and Fix Complex Problems and Make Smarter Decisions

“present moment.” Given the relative young age of the thinking brain compared to the”
― Albert Rutherford, Learn To Think in Systems: Use System Archetypes to Understand, Manage, and Fix Complex Problems and Make Smarter Decisions

“If we don’t plan for limits, we are planning for failure.”[xlix”
― Albert Rutherford, Learn To Think in Systems: Use System Archetypes to Understand, Manage, and Fix Complex Problems and Make Smarter Decisions

“The event level is about handling the present. As the present becomes under control, we slowly move to higher levels and gradually into the future. Actions taken on higher levels affect the future rather than the present.”
― Albert Rutherford, Learn To Think in Systems: Use System Archetypes to Understand, Manage, and Fix Complex Problems and Make Smarter Decisions

“Reinforcing feedback loops can be virtuous or vicious. They are virtuous when performance gets reinforced in the desired direction.”
― Albert Rutherford, Learn To Think in Systems: Use System Archetypes to Understand, Manage, and Fix Complex Problems and Make Smarter Decisions

“the stock’s size determines the amount of increase or decrease the feedback loop generates over time.”
― Albert Rutherford, Learn To Think in Systems: Use System Archetypes to Understand, Manage, and Fix Complex Problems and Make Smarter Decisions

“We can change flows quickly if we want, but stocks react more slowly to change. We can eat a piece of chocolate (inflow) and then go for a half-hour jog (outflow) to get rid of the extra calories. But our weight (stock) doesn’t instantly drop or rise. We can plant one hundred trees in a short period, but it will take decades for those trees to grow into a forest. Areas affected by droughts do not immediately see their reservoirs return to their normal water levels, nor are the negative impacts of global warming instantly reversed.”
― Albert Rutherford, Learn To Think in Systems: Use System Archetypes to Understand, Manage, and Fix Complex Problems and Make Smarter Decisions

“We are also the only creatures who possess the ability of metacognition. We can think about our thoughts. We can think and accept our biological limitations and realities and choose to act against them. We can choose to delay gratification, and we can choose to find solutions that make us happy in the long-term future. We can also choose to use systemic thinking instead of linear thinking when the situation asks for it.”
― Albert Rutherford, Learn To Think in Systems: Use System Archetypes to Understand, Manage, and Fix Complex Problems and Make Smarter Decisions

“A complex system is more like Forrest Gump’s mother’s box of chocolates: You never know what you’re going to get.”
― Albert Rutherford, Learn To Think in Systems: Use System Archetypes to Understand, Manage, and Fix Complex Problems and Make Smarter Decisions

“Systems thinking is a set of synergistic analytic skills used to improve the capability of identifying and understanding systems, predicting their behaviors, and devising modifications to them in order to produce desired effects. These skills work together as a system.”
― Albert Rutherford, Learn To Think in Systems: Use System Archetypes to Understand, Manage, and Fix Complex Problems and Make Smarter Decisions