A question frequently asked is: does not the persistent occurrence of Horrible Examples of Systems-function (or Malfunction) prove something about human nature? If humans were rational, wouldn’t they act otherwise than they do? We reply: Systems-functions are not the result of human intransigence. We take it as given that people are generally doing the very best they know how. Our point, repeatedly stressed in this text, is that Systems operate according to Laws of Nature, and that Laws of Nature are not suspended to accommodate our human shortcomings. There is no alternative to learning How Systems Work, unless one is willing to continue to run afoul of those Laws. Whoever does not study the Laws of Systemantics and learn them that way, is destined to learn them the hard way, by direct encounter in the world of Experience. That such runnning-afoul continues to occur is simply a reflection of the fact that knowledge of those laws is not yet sufficiently widespread. The problem is one of Education, and this book represents an effort in that direction. | |
― John Gall | |
From his book: “Systemantics: The Systems Bible“ | |
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2019 | He Claims It’s Fake News And Spies |
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2017 | Who’s Turn Is It Now? |
2016 | Before You Vote In November… |
2015 | Two Faithful Thoughts |
2014 | Love Light |
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2013 | Nothing Ridiculous |
2012 | Keeping Faith |
2011 | Summon Us, Don’t Criticize Us |
2010 | Obama’s Wars – Book Review |
Game Two – Hearbreaking Loss | |
Posts Tagged ‘Experience’
One Of The Problems (Anyway)
Posted in Education, Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Education, Experience, FAQs, Horrible Examples, How Systems Work, Human Rationality, John Gall, Laws Of Nature, Learning, Philosophy, Quotes, Systemantics (3rd Ed.): The Systems Bible on October 9, 2022| Leave a Comment »
A Little Of What’s Been Lost
Posted in Health, Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Artisanal Skills, Bowling, Brendan I. Koerner, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Experience, Health, Maurice "Mo" Pinel, One Man's Amazing Journey to the Center of the Bowling Ball, Pandemic, Philosophy, Quotes, Sport, Vaccinations, Wired Magazine on September 6, 2022| Leave a Comment »
[Maurice “Mo”] Pinel dedicated a fair portion of his life to disseminating his ideas, and he left behind artifacts such as his YouTube videos that will forever serve as repositories of his eccentric wisdom. But there was so much he never managed to articulate, so much teaching he still had left to do. And because he operated in a field that withered a great deal during his decades of involvement, there is perhaps no one left with his breadth of experience nor his bone-deep sense of bowling’s elemental splendor. | |
This is what the mercilessness of the pandemic has abruptly robbed from us: tens of thousands of men and women whose rare and hard-won knowledge can never be replicated. This is how artisanal skills are forgotten, how dialects vanish, how the stories meant to sustain us ebb away from our collective memory. And it’s all happening at a pace far faster than we can grieve. | |
After meditating on all that’s been lost, I could come up with only one fitting way to honor what Mo’s time here meant. As I write these words, I stand precisely 12 days away from being fully vaccinated against the coronavirus. I plan to celebrate by taking my kids bowling. | |
— Brendan I. Koerner | |
From his article: “One Man’s Amazing Journey to the Center of the Bowling Ball“ | |
Appearing in: Wired Magazine; dtd: July / August 2021 | |
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I Learn The Hard Way
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Aaron Shearer, Bad Judgment, Experience, Good Judgment, Guitar, Music, Philosophy, Potential, Quotes, Repetition, Rita Mae Brown on May 31, 2022| Leave a Comment »
The reason so many guitarists fail to reach their potential is error filled repetition, aka not knowing exactly how to do each movement! | |
— Aaron Shearer | |
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. | |
— Rita Mae Brown | |
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2022 | I Learn The Hard Way |
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Always | |
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2018 | The Ultimate Trial |
2017 | Vain Expectations |
2016 | Or Of One Thought |
2015 | What’s In Your Future? |
2014 | Light In Darkness |
2013 | How ‘Bout Just Obeying The Law? |
2012 | Or Maybe Not |
2011 | My Interval Is Too Short! |
Still Building
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Character, Courage, Eleanor Roosevelt, Experience, Honesty, Life, Personal Growth, Philosophy, Quotes on November 21, 2021| 4 Comments »
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. | |
— Eleanor Roosevelt | |
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Golden | |
2020 | Books And Blogs |
You Don’t Know What I Got | |
2019 | #45 Is The Inverse |
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2017 | Eeny Meeny Miny Moe |
Binge, Binge, Binge | |
2016 | Feeling Warm Yet? |
Four Documentaries | |
2015 | Just Like All The Others |
2014 | In My Own Vanity |
2013 | Filled With Words |
2012 | Lectio Auget Existentiae Meae |
2011 | Lied Lately? |
2010 | Born To Work At Faux News |
Lost Again (Uh, Make That Still) | |
Qui Genus Humanum Ingenio Superavit | |
They’re Back… (Part 1) | |
Does Blogging Count?
Posted in Education, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Art, Education, Experience, https://news.lettersofnote.com/, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., New York City, Other Blogs, Other web sites, Philosophy, Quotes, Soul Growth, Xavier High School on November 9, 2021| 4 Comments »
Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow. | |
Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives. | |
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | |
From a letter to students at Xavier High School in New York City in response to an invitation to visit their school. | |
The quote is part of a larger response which was found on one of the blogs I follow: https://news.lettersofnote.com/ | |
The specific post can be found at: https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/make-your-soul-grow | |
[Please visit the original site if you have a spare minute. — kmab] | |
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2012 | Sustained Fear |
2011 | Commitment |
Try To Choose Wisely
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Choice, Experience, Joys, Kahlil Gibran, Philosophy, Quotes, Sorrows on March 18, 2021| Leave a Comment »
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. | |
— Kahlil Gibran | |
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Found It | |
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2015 | Is It Still Dark Out? |
2014 | Rule One |
2013 | Spelling God’s Name |
2012 | Love Your Life And Sing |
Feeling Under the Weather? | |
2011 | Cheers, Friend! |
Books And Blogs
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, Reading, Writing, tagged Experience, Philosophy, Quotes, Reading, Socrates, Time, Writing on November 21, 2020| 2 Comments »
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for. | |
― Socrates | |
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2021 | Still Building |
Golden | |
2020 | Books And Blogs |
You Don’t Know What I Got | |
2019 | #45 Is The Inverse |
2018 | A Message To The White House Press Corps |
2017 | Eeny Meeny Miny Moe |
Binge, Binge, Binge | |
2016 | Feeling Warm Yet? |
Four Documentaries | |
2015 | Just Like All The Others |
2014 | In My Own Vanity |
2013 | Filled With Words |
2012 | Lectio Auget Existentiae Meae |
2011 | Lied Lately? |
2010 | Born To Work At Faux News |
Lost Again (Uh, Make That Still) | |
Qui Genus Humanum Ingenio Superavit | |
They’re Back… (Part 1) | |
The Premium Few
Posted in Faith Family and Friends, Family and Friends, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Experience, Friendship, Gail Godwin, Philosophy, Quotes on October 27, 2020| Leave a Comment »
One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are. | |
— Gail Godwin | |
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Is There A Notion For That Motion? | |
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No Sympathy Here | |
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2016 | Give Value |
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2014 | Pragmatic Religion |
2013 | How’s Your View? |
2012 | Giants Win Game 3 Of The 2012 World Series 2 To 0!!! |
Still Haven’t… | |
Accidental Me | |
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Ought To More Often Than Once
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Earth, Experience, Navarre Scott Momaday, Philosophy, Quotes on October 24, 2019| 2 Comments »
Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience; to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wonder about it, to dwell upon it. He ought to imagine that he touches it with his hands at every season and listens to the sounds that are made upon it. He ought to imagine the creatures there and all the faintest motions of the wind. He ought to recollect the glare of the moon and the colors of the dawn and dusk. | |
— Navarre Scott Momaday | |
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2017 | Left Behind |
2016 | Self-Restraint |
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The Ones Worth Remembering, Anyway
Posted in Humor, Quotes, tagged Experience, Humor, Mistakes, Oscar Wilde, Quotes on April 27, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes. | |
–– Oscar Wilde | |
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Front Update | |
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Boot Edge Edge (My New T) | |
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2017 | Streaking Tales |
2016 | Singular Reality |
2015 | He Says It’s Hard To Get There From Here |
2014 | Question From A Founding Father |
2013 | Make Heroes |
2012 | See And Hold |
2011 | Am Not, Are So |
Worry (x2)
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Experience, Imagination, Mark Twain, Philosophy, Quotes, Walt Disney, Worry on September 9, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Worry is a waste of imagination. | |
— Walt Disney | |
Most of my life’s worst experiences never actually happened. | |
— Mark Twain | |
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The Sun Is Shining | |
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November 3rd Is Coming! | |
An Eye For An Eye | |
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Day 11: 49ers Win | |
2018 | Worry (x2) |
2017 | Still Working |
Gold In The Morning Sun | |
2016 | Power Inside |
2015 | Sometimes I Feel Small |
2014 | It Slipped Away |
2013 | Corollary |
2012 | Working Retired |
2011 | The Web Is Not Authoritative! (Really?) |
Mirror, Mirror
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Experience, Philosophy, President Abraham Lincoln, Quotes, Vices, Virtues on February 24, 2018| Leave a Comment »
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. | |
— President Abraham Lincoln | |
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2022 | Full Of It |
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What Are You Looking For? | |
2020 | All You Can |
2019 | No Wall And Not One Dollar |
‘Cause It Makes Me Scratch | |
2018 | Mirror, Mirror |
2017 | Keep On Keeping On |
2016 | Reflections |
2015 | Is It Time Yet? |
2014 | Ask Any Follower |
2013 | Cornered Or Surrounded? |
2012 | Escape |
2011 | Achievement |
Not Unreasonable Enough | |
The Voice Of Experience
Posted in Humor, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Arguing With Women, Experience, Humor, Philosophy, Quotes, Will Rogers, Wisdom on July 13, 2017| Leave a Comment »
There are two theories to arguing with a woman… neither works. | |
— Will Rogers | |
Never miss a good chance to shut up. | |
— Will Rogers | |
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On This Day In: | |
2016 | Who And When |
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2012 | Beyond Reasonable Doubt |
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Dance! | |
It’s Even Dimmer When You Don’t Have It
Posted in Quotes, tagged #DumbDonald, Experience, Lamps, Light, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Quotes on February 3, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it. | |
— Louis-Ferdinand Céline | |
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Latina Fish Story | |
2018 | Blocking The Light And Air |
2017 | It’s Even Dimmer When You Don’t Have It |
2016 | Inconvenienced By Degree |
2015 | Sincerity |
2014 | Prayers For Junior |
Senseless | |
2013 | Interesting Drink |
Super Bowl XLVII Declared A No Bird Zone | |
2012 | Smile |
2011 | Come Forward |
Are You Looking Forward To A Trump Presidency?
Posted in Politics, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Donald Trump, Experience, George Bernard Shaw, Never Learning, Politics, Quotes on January 4, 2017| 3 Comments »
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. | |
― George Bernard Shaw | |
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2016 | Three Errors From Eureka |
2015 | Limiting Choices |
2014 | Praise The Lord And Pass The Hypocrisy |
That Sound | |
2013 | Still Waiting For Answers |
2012 | Informal Leadership |
2011 | A Little More Progress |
2010 | Bec’s Gone Again… |