Escape behavior often results in more stress than one escapes from.

Understanding relationships is the foundation of effective problem solving. Though relations exists on multiple levels.

Part 1 demonstrates Picture primitives and Links to create representations of interactions. These are made visually attractive because the Picture primitives are overlayed with images.

This is the sample model used as a demo for enfolding and unfolding a model. This is what we had to do before the Storytelling feature was developed. Save this one for posterity!

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There are about fifteen known archetypes with an interesting set of relationships among them.

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All the following have a common characteristic.

Investigations into the relationships responsible for the success and failure of nations. This investigation was prompted after reading numerous references on the subject and perceiving that *Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty* by Acemoglu and Robinson seem to make a great deal of sense.

Out of Control is one of the four generic archetypes developed by Eric Wolstenholme and maps to the Fixes that Fail, Accidental Adversaries, Shifting the Burden and Addiction Systems Archetypes.

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An implementation of the classic Game of Life using agent based modeling.

Rules:

• A live cell with less than two alive neighbors dies.
• A live cell with more than three alive neighbors dies.
• A dead cell with three neighbors becomes alive.

Macros are very useful for defining functions that need to be repeatedly at various places in the model.

While these pictures represent very different things there is a common essence.

What do activities of these images have in common?

The Exponential Growth Archetype is a reinforcing structure which promotes exponential growth. This is one of the two foundation archetypes. The other being the goal seeking structure. See also Archetypes.

What do activities of these images have in common?

While these pictures represent very different things there is a common essence.

Just some thoughts for Runy.

The limits to growth structure is based on the basic growth structure. And, as should be obvious, nothing grows forever as growth requires resources. Those required resources become a limits to growth. See also Archetypes.

Part 1 demonstrates Picture primitives and Links to create representations of interactions. These are made visually attractive because the Picture primitives are overlay'd with images.

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Initial causal loop diagram for the influences leading to the acceptance of Systems Thinking.

While these pictures represent very different things there is a common essence.

All the following have a common characteristic.

Aapted from The Dynamics of Identity Theft: A Comparison of Symptomatic and Systemic Solutions by Mary Lou G. Bourne and Michael L. Deaton

We often set out to solve a problem or accomplish some particular result and things seem to go as planned. As time progresses it seems that progress becomes more and more difficult, if not impossible, and things may actually become worse than when we started. When this happens it is typically a Fixes that Fail structure that's operating. See also Archetypes.

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What do activities of these images have in common?