To add to these, it dawns on us eventually that there is no “Stop” button either. You may find that they may have been running long before you were even born and have even become the products of that structure.
However, that is not the case so with causal maps. We enjoy knowing when we can initiate the button. It has ahead of you before you have had a chance to get to the “starting line” to begin. That is not the case with causal structure. The question, “Has it already started?” or “where do we begin”, would look like we had to wait for someone to press the “Start” button before it begins. Each time, you would find causal structures are already underway. Now that we have seen the ways reinforcing loops are distinct from process maps, what would we need to do to prepare as well as to anticipate when we begin to work with reinforcing loops? The following are areas to consider: Can you agree? What in your view, would would be the differences, if any, that lie between the two?ĮXAMPLE OF REINFORCING LOOPS Pinnacle Academy’s Proposal of the Circular Economy But there is a fundamental flaw to the question. Step back and decide where then would you begin. Often I get the question, so if “this” now acts as a loop, where would I begin? My simple answer to the question would be it would depend on what part of the loop do you want to see more of happen. The only trouble then, is should we continue to ignore reinforcing loops, the more difficult it will become for the shifts to eventually happen. This now gets in the way of being able to turn reinforcing loops around from their vicious natures. The tricky part to applying systemic thinking is, when we had been applying balancing loop strategies for a very long time, to what essentially requires strategies that support the reinforcing loop, we begin to recognize the difficulties in shifting as the mind as it has become set in one way (that is mental models). What do you think others, who have yet to understand what Systems Thinking is, would hear? Which loop do you hear in each one of them? Are the loops reinforcing positively or negatively? Economy – “We struggle to find investments to keep the economy steady.”. Learning – “As we see our parents seek less learning by reading, so do we as their children learn not to do more of the same”. More soluble fertilizer is used, decreasing the soil fertility even further” Soil Fertility – “As the biological health of the soils decreases, soil fertility declines. Market Confidence – “As the confidence in the stock market decreased, the crash began to accelerate, creating even less confidence”. Credit Card Interest – “I don’t charge much on my card, but since I do not pay it off every month, the interest keeps compounding”. Fashion – “That fashion fad caught on quickly and soon everyone was wearing it”. Population – “That area is experiencing a population explosion”. Viruses – “Only a few people were identified with the virus at first, but now it has become an epidemic”. Avalanche – “It was a snowball gathering mass and speed”. Rumors – “I told only one person and soon everyone knew.”. Here are some examples of reinforcing loops A virtuous circle has favorable results, while a vicious circle has detrimental results. The terms virtuous circle and vicious circle (also referred to as virtuous cycle and vicious cycle) refer to complex chains of events that reinforce themselves through a causal loop that feeds back to itself. This is anything that seeks to grow, ON ITS OWN. The reinforcing loop is the story that underpins all virtuous and vicious cycles. In their presence, linear thinking can always get us into trouble. Like the snowball that builds itself into an avalanche. It completes the change to a point of no return. There is only a causality,ĭon’t underestimate the explosive nature of these causalities. 
Note, this is NOT the act of reinforcing. The first action you had taken was, in fact, caused. The change is the result of something else also changing that wills you to want to change which in turn influences more of the same action and so on. Within a reinforcing loop, the action you take produces a result which influences (or causes) more of the same action thus resulting in growth or decline.
High birth rates lead to higher birth rates, industrial growths lead to more industrial growths. In all reinforcing causalities, a small change builds on itself. Without reinforcing loops, one would not see growth. Without a reinforcing loop, change may begin but it does not complete. The reinforcing loop is one of the two foundational structures of systems thinking, the other being the Balancing Loop.
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