Engineers optimise for efficiency. Gardeners work with entropy. Somewhere between these approaches lies how we might better understand human motivation.
Your morning coffee grows cold whilst you delay the first sip. The delay isn't procrastination—it's the gravitational pull of inertia asserting its presence alongside your eagerness. Two forces occupy the same psychological space: acceleration and deceleration, happening simultaneously.
Traditional productivity frameworks assume motivation operates like a engine throttle—more fuel equals more movement. But observe a pendulum instead. Its swing contains both kinetic energy and the constant presence of resistance. Neither force cancels the other