More Success & Less Friction - Aligning With The Laws of Nature For A Smooth Glide To Achieving Anything

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Natural laws, on the other hand, are determined by fundamental forces within nature.

Natural laws arise from the process known as the scientific method.

The scientific method is the systematic study of the natural world through experimentation and observation. This method provides scientists with a rigorous framework to objectively study the natural world. Using the scientific method, natural laws can be verified through experiments conducted by independent observers.

The laws of Nature, from the simplest to the most complex, are attempts to summarize this widespread display of order.

They are discovered from repeated observation and often allow for a concise mathematical expression.

The laws of Nature are very different from the laws of man.

While the laws of man seek to order and control individual and social behavior so as to make communal life less risky, the laws of Nature are deduced from long-term observation of repeatable patterns and trends.

While the laws of man may vary from culture to culture, based as they are on moral values that lack universal standards, the laws of Nature aim at universality, at uncovering behaviors that are true — in the sense of being verifiable — across time and space.

Thus, while certain cultural trends that are accepted in one group may seem barbaric to others (such as female circumcision), stars across the Universe have been burning according to the same rules since they've first appeared some 200 million years after the Big Bang.

Likewise, while in some countries the death penalty is abhorrent and in others it is exercised with almost fanatical zest, atoms and molecules across trillions of planets and moons in this and other galaxies combine and recombine in chemical reactions that follow patterns of order based on well-defined laws of conservation and of attraction and repulsion.

Physicists are fond of saying that the simplest laws with the most explanatory power are the most elegant or beautiful.

Biological Laws –

Evolution by natural selection (invent, vary, reinvent, multiply and then vary again

1. invent and reinvent regularly
2. expose new creations to full bore competition
3. scatter variant products around core products
4. kill the babies
5. accept the market’s verdict
6. only expect a few winners

Mendel’s Genes and Business

1. use the best genes available (invent or reproduce),
2. make yourself a great vehicle for the best business genes (adaptaion)
3. use failure
4. continual experimentation and OODA

Evolutionary Psychology and Advancement

1. cooperation
2. develop cooperation with the best cooperators
3. take turns in extracting advantage
4. develop practices and habits of cooperation

Non Linear Laws:

80/20

1. Achieve more with less – make this a mantra
2. Start with the fifty/5 principal
3. Be sparing in what you own/capital expenditure
4. Subtract as well as add

Unintended Consequences

1. sustain success by creating new/more value every day
2. root out complexity and cultivate agility
3. Learn to identify, evaluate and eliminate or adapt to unintended consequences
4. Combining more than one produces synergy and 1 +1 can = 5 or more.

Links:

http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2013/06/26/195534987/laws-of-man-and-laws-of-nature

Richard Koch’s book The 80/20 Principle and 92 Other Powerful Laws of Nature http://amzn.to/2ssYIkH

Richard Koch’s book The 80/20 Principle – The Secret To Achieving More With Less http://amzn.to/2sttkCH