Serim Tarcan

But activation energy isn’t just a chemical concept. It’s a principle that applies to any system where change is possible but not automatic. In personal growth, activation energy is the effort required to break old habits and form new ones. In innovation, it’s the investment needed to turn an idea into reality.

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In personal development, leverage is about identifying the key habits, skills, and relationships that will impact your life and work most. It’s about focusing your energy on the critical few rather than the trivial many, about finding the points of maximum leverage where small changes can cascade into massive results.

Velocity isn’t just about raw speed. Direction matters just as much (if not more). A car moving at high speed in circles goes nowhere, while a slow and steady walk in a straight line can cross continents.

The key is to pick the right direction and build momentum so inertia works to your advantage and carries you forward. This is the essence of the “flywheel” concept in business—success breeds success, and small wins compound into big gains.

So, we face two bottlenecks:

Fragmented patient data that's hard to find, reconcile, and trust.

Documentation burden that spills into after-hours work and fuels burnout.

Both undermine our ability to deliver high-quality care and succeed in value-based models.

The data confirms what most of us already feel: physicians spend roughly half of their time on EHR and administrative tasks rather than direct patient care. Much of that happens after hours, the infamous "pajama time" devoted to finishing charts.

Most people live a quietly anxious life because they know they should be doing something other than what they're doing, but they don't do anything about it because they don't know what to do, so they keep doing the same thing to numb the pain that comes with change

People with a low agency mindset tend to be passive, reactive, and fatalistic. They see life as something that happens to them over which they have little control or responsibility. They frequently feel like a victim of circumstances and tend to see themselves as a supporting character in other people’s stories.

People with a high agency mindset are... See more

A look back at AlphaGo—the first AI system that beat the world champions at the game of Go, decades before it was thought possible—is useful here as well.

• In step 1, AlphaGo was trained by imitation learning on expert human Go games. This gave it a foundation.


• In step 2, AlphaGo played millions of games against itself. This let it become superhuman

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