--- ## Highlights systems thinking is a critical tool in addressing the many environmental, political, social, and economic challenges we face around the world. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h2yzr0dbdhbwzxxs871txepq)) Once you start to see the events of the day as parts of trends, and those trends as symptoms of underlying system structure, you will be able to consider new ways to manage and new ways to live in a world of complex systems. In publishing Dana’s manuscript, I hope to increase the ability of readers to understand and talk about the systems around them and to act for positive chang ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h2yzrz1ssy1n3b0j583z9kn3)) ^6l40p3 system is a set of things—people, cells, molecules, or whatever—interconnected in such a way that they produce their own pattern of behavior over time. The system may be buffeted, constricted, triggered, or driven by outside forces. But the system’s response to these forces is characteristic of itself, and that response is seldom simple in the real world. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h2yzzxpc8zsvgd2xz1j7c6p9)) ^bcqvfd