The Monk and the Plumbing!

Since 2025, I have become a firm believer in systems and patterns. My goal is to break to worst patterns (which doesn’t let me be in peace) and trying to make and keep the best ones.

Building habits by designing the environment and also creating systems around the life that one can sustain is crucial. I did few. Somewhere along the way, I thought that if the system is set up, it should run smoothly forever. No chaos, leaks nor even glitches.

Life isn’t fair and obviously not a perfect machine. It is more like plumbing and wiring. There are always leaks. The real hard work is finding them and sealing them.

I have trying to have conversations with people, trying to understand how their system work and how they seal. Even tried with AI. Yet nothing clicked. Since everyone life is unique and subjective.

Then yesterday, while searching for something else, I got some clarity on this. Systems can’t be fixed in a day or can be forced. The best way is to observe the patterns, shape, nature of the leak or the error to find the leverage point.

Find the rules. Find the pattern and the look for the one small change that makes everything else easier. Sometimes, the best way to understand is to play with it and observe how it reacts, rather than trying to fix it immediately.

The blog also spoke about Donella Meadow’s 12 leverage points in system thinking. Transcending paradigms was the highest one. It is the shift from “This is how it has to be” to “This is just one way I have chosen to look at it”. For example, my body is a perfect machine to do the chores to my body is a vessel for something larger to carry the soul/purpose.

Some kind of Zen or monk madness is required to rise above and realize that even when one is at eye of the system that needs to be analyzed.

Cheers

Check out the previous posts: Zero to Everywhere!

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