I have been working for decades with the adaptive cycle, a figure 8 pattern found in nature. You can see a fairly recent article on it here, https://www.europeanfinancialreview.com/in-praise-of-ecological-rationality-the-return-of-practical-wisdom-to-management/

For a longer piece on how it was developed out of experience see https://plexusinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Discovering-Complexity-by-David-Hurst-May-2019.pdf