The disappointment of systems approach LO20987

Bill Braun (medprac@hlthsys.com)
Tue, 23 Mar 1999 14:03:18 -0600

Replying to LO20949 --

>The PHSE programme is taught to teenagers within schools. So, it is
>really addressing people's evolving mental models rather than addressing
>mental models that have evolved and been found to be successful. Why
>should somebody suspend their mental models when they have proved to be
>successful throughout their lives?

I don't think of mental models as successful or unsuccessful. They just
are. Suspending them is not an admission of success or failure. It is
simply a mechanism for gaining insights that might otherwise be
unavailable if we subconsciously pass what we hear through our current
filters (mental models).

Bill Braun

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