It would be unfair to say I am writing again on this blog, as I never really started. Mostly because I have always been very lazy & have only been doing the things that have to be done and leave a lot of things incomplete because of leaving them low on priority radar. partly I would say, there have been right time, and right mode, but the right kind of gadget wasn't available handy to pen down the true feelings in their price shape. I just hate to recap things and write them down, and would blame lack of same for not able to write down the Leh-Ladakh trip along the Indus river, or stay in unexplored parts of India in the vicinity of Indo-Bangladesh Border, where I have at times felt the urge to write and let the feelings and thoughts take up the shape in the form of a penned down experience!! Partly, I would also blame my habit of story telling, which satisfied the need of letting those thoughts and experiences out of the head. Anyways, leaving all of that behind, I have decided today to religiously write now, and today's topic is locus of control and stable-unstable equilibrium. Some of my close friends from DCE days might remember this theory I used to belabor and propagate as the holy words.
To describe it, I will bifurcate it into 2 parts and build the relationship.
Starting with part 1: Locus of control. My belief is that every emotion that we experience is controlled by environment around us which initiates certain chemical and biological processes inside us. Almost all of the emotions (BTW, "emotion" here is a broad term having pain, pleasure, happiness, irritation, anxiety, anger, excitement, discomfort, etc a subset of Emotion. Emotion becomes the super-set for all of these.) can be linked to environment and surroundings. Now the locus of control is that amplification factor which decides the magnitude of the affect of the environment on a person.
Mathematically, locus is a spot, a distance, a place as we studied as a child. So here it is defined as a notional value, on a scale of 0 to 1 where 0 stands its inside you and 1 stands its farthest away from you.
A person with this value as 1 would experience & showcase the highest amount of reaction to every action from the environment, and someone with 0 would obviously not react at all.
A person perceived as calm, composed, thoughtful, (lazy) would have this value closest to 0. He would not react to the environment and surroundings, people around him, their anger or happiness, and shall posses full control of his himself, and can project to the outer world. A person closest to 1 are the best examples who react to almost everything, and possess minimal control. So this locus of control defines if the control is with you or outside you.
Second part of the subject is EQUILIBRIUM. I have partially taken the analogy from our chemistry books during school days, where we read about stable and unstable equilibrium. A stable equilibrium is the one where the forces act in such a way that the balance is reached in a short span of its disruption. The disruption level is described above, where the environment has played his part and done the needful to agitate, irritate, soothe, calm, excite, inspire you. The 1st part I would say is more of a long term behavior or habit which I have experienced is more difficult to change.
The equilibrium type is more of an acquired skill set, which a person with an open outlook can accept certain of his/her habits and practice to reach the stable state of mind in the shortest span of time.
The equilibrium again is an analog value from 0 to 1, with 0 being the state where equilibrium is regained in the shortest span of time, perhaps instantaneously, or may be the affects wasn't even felt and life is back on track.
However, equilibrium value 1 is when the forces are Nil. A situation below describes this best. This is an unstable equilibrium state, where reaching the centre point is impossible without external effort, perhaps a medical counselling or help from relatives/friends.
You might think the categorization is over, but I have also added an extreme state of mind, called unstable where the forces are acting to take the code of conduct away and away from the center point. An image below describes the forces for such a situation.
Now the permutation and combination of above two values, can be useful to classify people in diff personality types, and also, a score system could be used to evaluate and compare on different requirement criteria. The tough part would be coming up with the questionnaire and test conditions to calculate score.
As can be seen, someone with both scores low, would be more suitable in certain critical positions where a lot of stress needs to be handled. An interesting calculation would be to get data on reaction of sportsmen. They have the fastest of responses. Also, how is the score of response times of people who have low score on locus of control? Could it be their slow response time, acting as a blessing in disguise always projecting them as in control.
This is the first draft of the thoughts being penned down to some concrete form. Hoping to shape it better after some inputs and comments from people.
Cheers,
