Becoming a Systems Thinker

Becoming a Systems Thinker
Becoming a systems thinker is a habit that a person develops along the way to understand everyday situations and to design future desires. A system thinker sees the situation in terms of wholes rather than as a single event. A system thinker will also look for connections among problems, people, events, and nature. They will look at the boundaries that are around the problems and looks for the influences from within the system focusing less on the blame and more on the structure (Sweeney, n.d.). In this paper, the reader will learn about how a family is more like a biological system than a mechanical system. The reader will also learn more about the term system and eight systems concepts.
Biological Systems over Mechanical Systems
Biological systems can be described in similar ways to mechanical systems. However, there are still advantages and disadvantages between biological systems and mechanical systems when discussing how a family is more like a biological system over a mechanical system. A family is more like a biological system because they responded to the demands of the external environment that they is located (Dallos & Draper, Chapter 1, 2010). When it comes to the biological system a family has the capacity to change and evolve in a situation. Just like with the weather if a person comes from a colder climate but moves to a warmer climate they can change and evolve to get use to the surroundings that the person is living in. With biological systems, we observe the patterns. However, with a mechanical system the patterns are determined by the designer (Dallos & Draper, Chapter 1, 2010). With biological system, a hypotheses or inference can only be developed. However, mechanical systems is fully determined and predictable (Dallos & Draper, Chapter 1, 2010). With the biological system, the body could be seen as a set of components that work together in an integrated and coordinated way to stabilize the family (Dallos &...