Sometimes the amount of energy that you need to put in is what the process itself demands
and not what you feel like or not what you've already put in or also to some extent not
how much time you've put into the process itself.
I think this topic or this ideology has kind of made itself very apparent to me today and
I'm going to take you through my thinking process and how I've kind of churned on this
idea.
So I think I've been thinking back to A levels which is kind of wild and I think something
kind of stuck with me that I understood back then that I really didn't kind of meditate
on and use to its full extent and it's kind of weird to apply certain concepts that are
more tailored for one aspect to life to another aspect.
With regards to this generally I'm applying chemistry which is something that I usually
don't talk about because I hated chem.
No I'm kidding.
But one thing that I was thinking about in general was like activation energy and I'm
no chemist but what I understood from my level chemistry is that we had different types of
reactions and within reactions themselves we would have reactants and at the end of
the reaction we would have products as we all know.
Some of us would know.
My bad that sounds shady.
But something that I kind of learned from A levels is that we had these diagrams that
were called energy profiles.
We were kind of introduced to oh actually we had these concepts being expanded on but
they were not introduced in A levels.
We were kind of learning about different types of reactions endothermic reactions and exothermic
reactions and how these reactions in themselves have certain profiles and the concept of activation
energy kind of stuck very very much with me and I think I've been learning more how this
process or this aspect of a reaction is very applicable in our lives.
In general I think when we look at the certain things that we want in life and certain processes
that we want to step into that bring forth transformation in us as humans we tend to
often have endothermic reactions to some extent but with respect to us actually moving from
one state to another maybe a state where you had access of usually negative things and
you want to move down to a state where you have less of that.
I would say that those situations would have exothermic reactions in a way and I'm going
to explain why I've chosen to use these concepts.
With regards to endothermic reactions I think that we usually have the reactants and in
life I would say that the reactants are certain character traits or certain things that we
want to change and these might be simple these might be maybe working on your financial goals
you know improving your financial literacy improving your spiritual life improving different
aspects of your life whatever that may be you want to move from one state where you
were some way in a lower level to a higher level and in actually moving from one state
to another in this regard you kind of have to go through a similar energy profile that
normal reactants do.
See there's this stage where you know you're there you have the same I would say level
of financial literacy or the same level of certain characteristic you wanted to change
and often we tend to want to draw energy as reactants would from the external environment
and with respect to our goals this might be actually you know doing work you know reading
books going to courses going to seminars networking and trying to actually take yourself from
one level of a skill to another and often when you do this process I feel like we often
get very discouraged because we sometimes get this energy from the external world and
we don't see much changing sometimes we do see some changes but often we don't see much
changing and I think that's because we kind of give up before we meet the required energy
activation energy for certain life processes and activation energy in its senses the energy
that is kind of needed to kind of in a high level I'm not going to make it very accurate
it is a certain amount of energy that is needed to kind of break all the bonds in your reactants
and bring them to this weird state that we call the transition state that is of a higher
energy level and that kind of breaks down to form something more stable and this thing
is usually higher than what you initially had.
With regards to our goals like I said we move from a state of you know having our normal
characteristics having our unchanged characteristic in a way then we kind of hone in on our craft
we kind of get all this energy from the external environment and we move when we've required
the right amount of energy to this weird transition state and I think it's a crazy thing that
the transition state is above your reactant I mean your products because often when we
actually do all of these things you're going to find out that in the process you have learned
so much things that some of them are in excess and some of them won't be needed for you to
actually be the person you need to be in the end and that's when we kind of move down the
curve and get to this place within the reaction where you lose energy and you get to your
final state your stable state and usually that is the result that we want in life.
One thing that I've noticed though is that like I said we usually fail to notice that
the energy that is required for us to change from one place will change from one state
to another is actually not determined by how you feel it is actually not determined by
how much time you've put into the process itself but rather it is determined by the
process is determined by who you are with regards to the process we can get into maybe
the calculation side of things but I think in a way if we change our perspective from
looking at how much we are working and not seeing results we could actually understand
that certain processes need a certain amount of energy that they demand and in knowing
this we kind of grind knowing that someday what needs to happen will happen in our lives
what needs to happen with respect to certain goals will happen as we continue grinding
and I think it applies to so many concepts we can talk about the law of compounding effect
you know if you do small if you take small steps towards something over time all of these
small steps accumulate to make something huge and I think this concept applies really well
to exothermic reactions instances where you probably have loads of negative energy loads
of bad habits and bad characteristics that you need to change that you need to break
down and in a way I don't know I want to live this out for you guys in a way I feel like
these reactions kind of touch in different aspects of our lives it can be used I feel
like the wisdom from the things that we've learned in the past the wisdom from things
that we kind of see around us can kind of lead us and help us with respect to different
goals in life I don't know this was just like my thought process over this I hope that I
didn't make it too complicated but I just wanted to share and I hope that you guys will
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