Activation Energy

Activation energy is a Mental Models that brings attention to the minimum amount of energy required to start something. That something can be a fire, a chemical reaction, a cultural change, a revolution. Any action requires activation energy. We can lower the entry barrier to achieving lower activation energy and make that action more likely to happen. We can do this by getting the right environment. The right environment will lower the activation energy we need to make an action. You can change your environment to make better decisions easier to happen. You don’t want to eat biscuits, don’t have biscuits at home. You don’t want to use social media as much, don’t have social tabs open in your browser. Once you understand the activation energy you need to do anything, you can work to lower it to make that happen. Imagine you want to change the way you do process X at your company; you can see resistance to change by people as activation energy. One example I like is using the [[Narrative Instict]] we all have to lower that energy. You can create a narrative within the group that oils the change into happening.

Obsidian Links
[[mental-models]]
[[energy-minimisation]]

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#mental-models