Many well-known systems thinkers had particular experiences which led them to devote their lives to their particular forms
of systems practice. So within systems thinking and practice, just as in juggling, there are different traditions which are
perpetuated through lineages and communities of practice. Appreciating these experiences and understanding these traditions
is enhanced by listening to those systems thinkers speaking about how they have come to view systems thinking and systems
practice based on their own experiences.
This cartoon names three out of the five systems thinkers I will introduce you to this week-- three thinkers who you will
hear speaking about their own work and not through reading a synopsis provided by me or someone else. This second cartoon,
which you first saw in Week 1, highlights three different jugglers handling their four balls in different ways, which itself
is indicative of the different histories, emphases, and experiences that inform the differing systems thinking and practice
employed by those thinkers. Learning from others is important. You now have the chance to learn about the experiences of some
key systems thinkers.