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AnonTechie [soylentnews.org] writes:

Life is full of small decisions: Should I pick up that sock on the floor? Should I do the dishes before bed? What about fixing the leaky faucet in the bathroom?

Leaving a sock on the ground is a manifestation of a concept from physics you may have heard of: entropy [wikipedia.org] is a measure of how much energy is lost in a system.

If a system loses too much energy, it will disintegrate into chaos. It takes only a little bit of energy to pick up one sock. But if you don’t take care of your yard, let pipes stay clogged and never fix electrical problems, it all adds up to a chaotic home that would take a lot of energy to fix. And that chaos will leach away your time and ability to accomplish other things .
The good news is that entropy has an opposite –  negentropy [wikipedia.org].

As a researcher who studies social systems [udayton.edu], I have found that thinking in terms of negentropy and energy can help you fight against entropy and chaos in daily life.

The Conversation [theconversation.com]

Do you think this will reduce the chaos in your life ?

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