- awareness of patterns in our world
- the fractal nature of phenomena
- change is the interconnection of people, social innovation theory, not a self-assertive personal path through life
- Meadows list of leverage points (Meadow 1999[^leveragePoints]), highest intervention is change of paradigms
- cycles in nature, figure 8: exploitation --> conservation --> release --> reorganization --> exploitation
- mentors are crucial to growing up
- inter-generational engagement; or inter-system engagement
- connection to nature is healing (Capra 2014[^systemsView])
- reductionist sciences and where they are useful, clear boundaries for concepts that are limited in their abstractability and application
## Reunderstanding the living being