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Apr 24, 2006
physics and the like
I don't understand momentum.
I understand the concept in terms of motion. I just don't understand it in the metaphorical sense. Take sports as an example. When a team has momentum, they become unstoppable. They can't make a bad play. And the other team can't buy a break. Things go like that until momentum shifts. Then the other team can do no wrong. It's an interesting concept.
Sometimes in life we seem to gain momentum. Or lack it. I'm sure it wasn't too long ago where I wrote a post about the lack of momentum in my life. Right now, I'm on a hot streak. Work is going well. School is going well. I'm on a hot streak.
And I can't figure out why. I don't think I'm doing anything differently. If I am doing anything differently, I'm not doing it better. Some of my best performances at work have been situations where the end result was not a positive one. It's just that the hole was too deep, and even a great digging effort couldn't get me out.
So maybe I'm just in an area where all of the holes are shallow. Which brings me to my point: how does momentum shift like that. why does everything go work one week and everything right the next? Why isn't it more even. And I don't mean that in the sense of why can't things be more even to make my life more complicated. Rather, I just can't make sense of the whole concept.
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