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Barrier #3
Linear-Thinking Habits
There are deep subconscious and
self-imposed conscious
linear-thinking habits.
The most impactful deep
subconscious linear-thinking
habit is
thinking in a linear language
(for instance,
English language)
characterized by a strict order
of parts of speech in a
sentence: the subject of the
sentence comes first, the verb
comes second, and the object
comes third. This subconscious
strict-order thinking habit
makes it difficult for a linear
thinker to understand chaotic
complex systems.
Just compare these two synonyms:
system
↔
系統
Which of these languages do you
think develops systems-thinking
abilities better?
This systems-thinking advantage
explains
why China's economy grows faster
in today's era of
systemic innovation.
Self-imposed conscious barriers
to systems thinking include
unnecessary
categorization,
commitment to a step-by-step
process and thinking in terms of
input-output only.
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