How to intervene in living systems, which are considered complex systems

What is the difference between paradigms (2.) and transcending paradigms (1.)?

I used to struggle with understanding the difference between the two highest leverage points until my friend showed me the quote below:

There is yet one leverage point that is even higher than changing a paradigm. That is to keep oneself unattached in the arena of paradigms, to stay flexible, to realize that NO paradigm is “true,” that every one, including the one that sweetly shapes your own worldview, is a tremendously limited understanding of an immense and amazing universe that is far beyond human comprehension. It is to “get” at a gut level the paradigm that there are paradigms, and to see that that itself is a paradigm, and to regard that whole realization as devastatingly funny. It is to let go into Not Knowing, into what the Buddhists call enlightenment.

~ Donella Meadows

Other related marbles and quotes

Gordon Brander wrote an article about this list, including many insightful quotes.

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

~ by author and theologian Howard Thurman.

The concepts of metacrisis and polycrisis relate to the question of "where do we start to intervene?" The highest intervention point (transcending paradigm) is related to addressing our metacrisis, as described in the aforementioned marble.

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References

Meadows, D. (1999). Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System - The Donella Meadows Project. http://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-to-intervene-in-a-system/

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