The Science of Sustaining Success: Activation Energy for Ambitious Leaders #createamovement #leaders

So sustain actually means to continue for an extended time without interruption. That's what sustain means. To continue for an extended period of time without interruption. From a career perspective, you both have been sustaining the movement you're on. Because you've been at it for a long time, and it's, and it's been kind of specific to what you do. Like I said, you just have to unpack it a little bit and go like, okay, I, I realize what I've been doing. So, I'm gonna bring this up again. You've seen me do this before, but remember this chart from high school? That's activation energy. So you start here and you go like, I'm in a certain state. This is— and Paul, you mentioned this before. This is the readiness curve. Are we ready? Are we doing the thing? You know, and then you're accumulating all that energy, and then you start walking up this hill. And we've all been on things where you walk up the hill and then you lose focus, and then the ball comes back down to the bottom, and then you have to start over. We've all done that before, right? So part of this is walk up the hill, and then you get to this top, and this is the activation energy where all of a sudden you get to a new state. A new state that's lower, more efficient energy. You have to expend less to make it go. Is this making sense for folks? I love the science. This is going to be a chapter in a book someday that I write. But I love activation energy because what a great way to describe change management. You know, we have to put so much energy in this thing. It's like, well, what does that mean by energy? It's like, Dude, that means I need you as a leader to go out there and talk about this. Oh, okay, that's energy.