Life is minimize the entropy.

Life is minimize the entropy. a great life is doing so in the most effective way.

let me first define this physical term again: the entropy is a measure of the the unavailability of a system’s energy to do work. 

seem complicated. the entropy is just like saturated fat, which is the unavailabe fat for our body to release energy, to do work. so, we should minimize it, right? 

however, entropy is not that simple and naive. we found that while the unavailable energy (or waste energy) in a system is lower, the system become well oranginzed. 

a very easy understand example is a system of dice. lets take an example of 3 dice. the dice can be completely random, like (1,3,6) or completely in order, like (1,1,1). we found that the entropy of the system is very related to the posibility. in the case (1,3,6), the possiblilty is (1/6)^3 times the combination of (1,3,6), which is 6, there are 6 different way to arrange them. so the posibility is 1/36. but in the case (1,1,1) the possibility is 1/216, since the combination of (1,1,1) is 1, there is only 1 way to arrange them. so, the well ordered system has lower entropy then the disorder system.

ok, i hope we now can see the "order" and entropy is related. time to look the nature. a hot gas, of course, is full of entropy, a lot un-useable energy. how about an ice?? it is a crystal, the water molecule stay close to each other, so, this system is more ordered. however, a living cell?? a living cell is very well ordered. it needs a membrance, a close pack of fat molecule to protect the little factory inside. how about human? of course, we are super-ordered. every part of our body need to coordinate to each other, to support our life. we eat food, because we need energy to remove the "saturated fat", keep us orgainezed. and the reason for getting old, is , we are going to disorder. 

well, we just talk about the biological aspect of order. how about our behaviour??? if we don't have order in life, what will happen? we will feel bad, and choas. we cannot do anything, in case of extreme. just think about if there is no traffic light, no pedestrian side, it is almost too dangerous to drive a car or walk on the street. so, we need order in our life. 

everyone must have certain degree of order, or discipline. but if we want to checkmate , want to do something great, rather than fulfil little goals. we have to be super organized and had the power to initialiating ourselve to plan and keep on schudle. 

Checkmate, Not Winning meterial

while playing chess, the goal is clear. but every beginner will fall in the way that : by winning meterial, has some sort of advantage in the number of pieces on the broad, will give them more chance to checkmate. yes, these philosophy is work, if you are facing another beginner. and some, even only know how to win pieces but don't know how to checkmate, let their opportunt a chance to draw, fail the advantage. i am one of them.

life happen in a similar way. people think, if they can step by step, sucessfully completed little and little short term goals, than, they will finially get what they want. 

by taking every advantage, is not the only way. there is another way - to checkmate. that's so called "short-cut". this tactic only availble for expert. since the skill fo this need a deep penertration view of what is happening. just like a chess master, need a lot experience and knowledege to see through the broad. 

Many politics, is very easy to fall in a situation that -- driven by the people, the mob. it is very easy to do so, especially the politics also come form the mob. the support of the people become the short term goal. he try his best to fulfill the goal like winning every advantage. And it is shame for some well educated politics, also happen in the same way, they can not lead or direct the people but let the people drive his move.

i am a stronge supporter for noble politic. the noble means well educated people, which has larger and depper view, that can see the core of the society. that why, i use "mob" to discribe "people". sometimes, poeple are just don;t know what they want, well, not everybody can undersatnd himself. moreover, the society spent so many dollar in trainning people, if eventually, we don't listen to the high educateds, but obey the mob, what the greatest joke in the world!

at last, in our life, in our society, we need to checkmate - to understand what we need most, what we don't want to happen the most. and find a way to complete it. rather than winning little by little advantage. ( i am not telling that, we should not win little advantage, but just not only. ) when we think again and again, try to found out all the possiblity, we will learn how to short cut to the goal.

Experience

when some people talk about 10 years experience in some field.

is 10 years X 1

or

1 years X 10???

this is very interesting.

10 years X 1, means that the 10 years is a single experience, no repetition. however, 1 years X 10, only means you did a 10 years job but just a repetition of 1 year.

some industries are 10years X 1. those are mainly creative and fast changing.

some industries are 1 years X 10. e.g. teacher.