Absolute Resource Guide: Order Out of Chaos
In the Absolute Conjugate Strategy, the athlete behaves as a dissipative structure, continuously exchanging energy and effort through specific training work to move closer to Point B.
Dissipative Structures & Order Out of Chaos
Ilya Prigogine, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1977, discovered that the usage of energy in thermodynamic systems far from equilibrium could lead to the emergence of new structures through internal self-organization, a term he coined as “dissipative structures”. His paradigm-shifting book, Order Out of Chaos, explores how order can emerge from chaos through these dissipative structures, which maintain their form through the continual exchange of energy.
Absolute Conjugate Strategy: Chaos that Generates the Order of Point B
If we think of Point B as "order"and the Absolute Conjugate Strategy as "chaos," we can observe how Point B emerges from the chaos of training. In this context, the athlete behaves as a dissipative structure, continuously exchanging energy and effort through specific training work that stimulates their physical development moving them closer to Point B. This training process mirrors the concepts discussed in Order Out of Chaos, where structured outcomes, or adaptations in this context, arise from the dynamic and often chaotic processes of energy and matter exchange in training.
Note: In our next Founders Meeting, we will be releasing the Absolute Conjugate System, and this book will serve as a reference for that meeting.
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