Look at that traffic jam ahead. We know to look for Events, Patterns, and Structure, but you may have found it difficult when you tried it on real problems. The lines get blurred between patterns and structure.
Structure is harder to see.
I teach systems thinking regularly and see learners encounter these difficulties. This article is about how to see structure. If we see the world in terms of events, then the best we can do to be effective is react . Along with this is the ability to plan and forecast . We can see some of the patterns, but some are not so obvious.