I found the simulation game fun and interesting at the beginning then I found myself getting really frustrated because I would be failing and by the time I tried to change it, it was too late. I also found that my corn yield was low or I did not have enough transportation fees for the cotton, which were two circumstances that I was not expecting to happen. After I failed the game about three times, I realized that I was making the mistakes that I had literally just learned about in the podcast and in the Dorner reading. I was being reactive, not proactive, to all of the problems that came my way. Maybe this is just a design flaw in the game because you do things like set how much corn you want to farm and then they give you the problem, but still I would wait to fully address the problem. I would try to push the limits of the crops and my family members to see if i could make it to the next session and have the money to send them to the hospital or to switch to cotton. However, this strategy never worked and I realized just how reactive and lazy I was being.<\/p>\n
This homework assignment really got me thinking about systemic work and how I kept on trying to change a million big in the simulator when I should have been “redefining” them in little but crucial ways. Further, I also realized that things are not going to change over night or after one session of the simulation. It is interesting how I could not even understand that after the reading and the podcast until I had to put this kind of thinking into action. I am really interested in the criminal justice system and how as a system it is operating in an extremely flawed way. If we want to mend or fix or injustices it is going to take a long time and little important wins to truly fix it. In the podcast when Bezio said that change has to be looked at in a 10 year range, I was a little discouraged because it sounds really daunting. However, it is the only way to get real change done without cutting corners and doing it little by little. It is a good mentality for going through life by taking things a little at a time and not letting your emotions cloud too much of your thinking or rationale (which i do a lot).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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