Mental
Why do problems keep coming back?
You solve a problem. It goes away. Then a few weeks later, it's back. Maybe worse. This isn't bad luck. It's a pattern built into the system.
You think that because you understand 'one' that you must therefore understand 'two' because one and one make two. But you forget that you must also understand 'and.'— Donella Meadows
The full breakdown — the context, the shift, and a question to sit with — opens in the Insights app.
The thinker
Systems Thinker & Environmental Scientist
Donella Meadows was an environmental scientist and lead author of The Limits to Growth. Her book Thinking in Systems remains one of the clearest introductions to how complex systems actually work.
Based on Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella Meadows, summarised and reframed by Insights.
Part of these journeys
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