5 Reading/Listening Tips For Week 21 2022 (Featuring John Gall, Lao Tzu, Alex Hormozi, Carol Dweck & Wendy Suzuki)

1. Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail — John Gall

I was blown away when I read this book (affiliate link). From large experience of system thinking, the late great John Gall presents clear axioms and implications about how complex systems (don’t) work. Since our bodies, our lives, careers, and the world are complex systems, this book is highly relevant to you. Examples of these axioms are

• The System Always Kicks Back
• People In Systems Do Not Do What The System Says They Are Doing
• A Complex System That Works Is Invariably Found To Have Evolved From A Simple System That Worked (Gall’s law)
• A Complex System Designed From Scratch Never Works And Cannot Be Made To Work. You Have To Start Over, Beginning With A Working Simple System

Some action steps you can do after reading this include:

• Try to avoid complex systems to mitigate unintended side-effects
• Evolve it, rather than implement one prepackaged
• The looser the system, the better

2. Tao Te Ching — Lao…