#system #behavior [[System structure is the source of system behavior]] > The system may be buffeted, constricted, triggered, or driven by outside forces. But the system's response to these forces is **characteristic of itself**, and that response is seldom simple in the real world. > The system, to a large extent, causes its own behavior! An outside event may unleash that behavior, but the same outside event applied to a different system is likely to produce a different result. Having a "system mindset": > You’ll be thinking not in terms of a static world, but a dynamic one. You’ll stop looking for who’s to blame; instead you’ll start asking, “What’s the system?” The concept of feedback opens up the idea that a system can cause its own behavior.