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Entropy Happens

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en·tro·py, [en-truh-pee] – a doctrine of inevitable social decline and degeneration. Yes decline is a state of activity, the other true state is growing however that takes energy constantly applied. There is not status that is maintained without energy.

So as the old saying goes; If you aren’t climbing your sliding! This is true for every person and every process. One must constantly be adding energy or the decay begins and soon covered by the dusts of time. 

Presently I am training for the Ride the Rockies bike ride in June. I had been feeling very strong so when the cold weather kicked back in late last week I took a few days off. Today I got back on and up the hills, Dam hard for two reasons, first is my muscles were already experiencing entropy and secondly my mind was moving away from the process of daily rides and I needed to overcome a bunch of mind garbage about training.

“Giants are only vulnerable when they become trapped by their hubris + the tyranny of success”

Value

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Expanding on value and adding value vs. reducing. In the physical world there is no such thing as a Zero effect. Things that exist may pass through a moment of neutrality as they shift along the continuum however to stay at a single point is impossible.  

Entropy is the process of decay to chaos or the ineffectual. In technology the ineffectual is almost always a net negative to the system. Chemistry has the concept of the “disappearing spoon” that describes the universal solvent, a solvent that erodes everything. Well the problem with that is it theoretically cannot be contained, the container would erode. 

Perpetual motion is a similar abstract. Any machine requires energy input or it is met with entropy. Where am I going with this? If everything (including humans) are a machine then we require energy in. Food is energy that makes cells work. Learning is energy that fuels the mind and spirit as is exercise and socialization. The quality of that fuel in all cases is the work of choice.

What do you choice to fuel with? Are you fueling yourself and your life (life’s work) in a way that ads value? Physics will apply entropy to decay, is your fuel enough to balance, enhance or just slow entropy? 

Think this through in everything, work, family, faith, spirit, exercise……  now drill down into the relationships and teams in your life!