What is Systems Engineering?

The official definition is “an interdisciplinary field of engineering and engineering management that focuses on how to design and manage complex systems over their life cycles.”

Now that’s a fancy definition.

All business organizations, at their core, are the same. They are all in business to make a profit. And they share many similar basic systems and functions but then use systems engineering to customize and optimize to best suit their organization.

People are also the same from a DNA and functional perspective, but there’s customization when they find what works best for the individual.

So how does this apply to you?

Well, you’re a complex system, and you need to learn to manage yourself over your own life cycle.

If you want to accomplish anything, you need a system to do so. Of course, now you can get things done in an ad-hoc, loose format, but even that is a system.

An effective system is one that works for you.

STOP. Read the previous statement again.

Now you can adopt some elements of other people’s systems, but there’s always going to be a degree of customization based on your own individual personality.

As your own system engineer, you need to be able to identify your weaknesses so that you can best accommodate for them and your strengths so that you can leverage them quickly.

So awaken your inner engineer and start engineering systems that you can use to design a life customized just for you.

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