16/02/2019
Thoughts:
I started this book: Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker and from the second chapter reality hit me with The Second Law of Thermodynamics and our common enemy: entropy. The Law states that in an isolated system (one that is not interacting with its environment), entropy never decreases. That basically all organisms are absorbing energy and trying to resist entropy (gradual disorder, or the creation of more possible states for the system). In the original form the law basically said that you can’t transfer heat from cooler system to the hotter one. Because the energy in the form of difference of temperature between two systems o bodies will inevitably transfer from the wormer to the cold system reaching a more balance state, you can see that the hotter system is decreasing its entropy and the cooler one increase it. By entropy I only had the idea of the gradual disorder of a system, but actually is the number of states that a system can have. The best example of continual increasing entropy is for the biggest closed system we know: the universe, which is constantly expanding and creating more and more possible configurations or states (creating more disorder).
The human organism is an open system because is constantly absorbing, releasing and exchanging energy with its environment, an example of not so perfect closed system will be the thermos.
Notes:
Seek to understand
Everything in order to be valuable it takes skill
What make the difference is your response and the way you think
Nothing can resist a persistence mind
Action beats anxiety
Start practicing self-awareness:
Daily checklist:
Daily Song: Godspell — The New Broadway Cast: Turn Back, O Man
Currently reading: Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker
Daily Lesson: Pay more attention in and outside of you
Daily Draw: Andrei, little brother sketch for his birthday
