Academy for Systems Change

[...] there’s nothing physical or expensive or even slow in the process of paradigm change. In a single individual it can happen in a millisecond. All it takes is a click in the mind, a falling of scales from the eyes, a new way of seeing. Whole societies are another matter—they resist challenges to their paradigms harder than they resist anything else. Donella Meadows | Systems Dynamics Meets the Press, 1989

You can read the whole essay in the Donella Meadows Archives on our website.