Learn Systems Thinking

Critical and lateral thinking sit on the opposite sides of each other in the systems thinking wheel. 🎡
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While critical thinkers look for validity of facts and evaluation of outcomes against a set criteria, lateral thinkers intentionally go the opposite direction. 🔬
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In lateral thinking (aka outside of the box thinking), you will want to deliberately challenge the existing conditions, rules and the status quo in search for novel solutions to existing or novel problems and vice versa. 🗃
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Lateral thinking is about application existing technologies in novel ways on problems. Think Uber, Airbnb and Netflix that revolutionised their industries. 🚖 🏘 🎥
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While you need to be good at lateral thinking to spot opportunities for innovation and entrepreneurship, you also need critical thinking to test your crazy ideas in the real world and remain grounded. 💡
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Accountants and researchers are masters of critical thinking while management consultants and entrepreneurs are masters of lateral thinking... 🤔
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This is an excerpt of my upcoming article on "What is systems thinking and how can it help you solve complex problems" which will be published this week. Stay tuned. ⌚

Many believe they're either logical or creative people, but they don't realise they can be both. In fact, most of the complex problems we face cannot be solved being only logical or creative. 🧮🎻
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Recent neuroscientific studies have found that being left or right brained is a myth! There is no such thing! Any thinking styles you use in your job (creative or logical) are going to engage both regions of your brain 🧠
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The idea here is you can master both sides of yourself with the right mindset plus relevant and focused training. Learn systems thinking to bring both sides together and be good at painting, music, writing, maths and science at the same time. 🔬 🎨

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Ever tried solving problems that make your head melt like an ice-cream on a stove? Those kind of problems are what we call "COMPLEX" 🤯- whatever you do you're not getting the results you expect. Examples: Building a business, writing an effective policies, managing a project with a parties of stakeholders. Etc.

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Learning systems thinking is like learning how to overclock your brain 🧠 - it allows you to bring together all different styles thinking to tackle the problem - to systematically innovate 💡
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There are 10 types of thinking styles - 5x logical and 5x creative which systems thinking help you integrate together to solve your most complex problems - whether in life or business...
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I will dive more into details in my upcoming article - "What is systems thinking and how can it help you solve complex problems" - stay tuned.