#humans #thinking > Linear relationships are easy to think about: the more the merrier. Linear equations are solvable, which makes them suitable for textbooks. Linear systems have an important modular virtue: you can take them apart and put them together again—the pieces add up. [[Word-based thinking is sequential and linear]] > 过去不管在学校或企业的训练，都在让你去找单一的标准答案，好像世界的背后都有着一种固定的线性规律，只要得到了 A就必定通向 B，或只要避免了 X， Y也不会发生，似乎若能真的找到某个问题点对症下药，任何问题都能迎刃而解。但这种「问题点」思维似乎在现今复杂的世界现况下越来越不够用，甚至会导致像上面提到用灭火来遏止森林大火所造成的反效果。我们更需要培养的是看见影响系统如何走向问题发生的「临界点」，进一步去理解系统内导致临界状态发生的互动关系，并且提升整个系统的抗干扰能力，避免问题的爆发。 > -- [[全球人才强着学 -- 密涅瓦的思考习惯训练]] HOWEVER:: [[The world is full of nonlinearities]]