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Energizing #1155 · From Chad

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  You're running out of power. There's a story behind that.
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  This is your daily message from Chandler.
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  But 1155 to upgrade your mental game today by telling yourself a
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  better story. Because the most important story
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  you hear is the story you tell yourself.
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  Likes, follows, stars, comments or subscriptions.
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  Whatever way your platform gives you to interact with content
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  like this helps others find these messages too.
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  Here's the upgrade. You think you need more energy,
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  but upgraded thinking knows the real question is how you're
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  using the energy you have. Here's the story.
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  Voyager 2, the spacecraft launched by NASA in 1977, is now
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  more than 13 billion miles from Earth, sending back data from
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  interstellar space, a place no other spacecraft has reached.
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  But it's dying. It's plutonium power source
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  loses about four watts every year, and every Watt lost means
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  another instrument goes dark. So this summer, the team at JPL,
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  the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at NASA, tried something they
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  called The Big Bang. In one moment, they shut down
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  certain powered parts, including an old tape recorder.
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  They kept running for years, mostly for its leftover heat.
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  And they swapped in lower energy alternatives to keep the
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  critical systems warm enough to survive the cold of deep space.
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  If anything went wrong, there was no undo button.
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  Commands take about 19 hours to reach the spacecraft one way.
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  They sent the instructions and waited two days.
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  It worked. They bought at least one more
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  year for the three instruments still doing real science out
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  there. 50 years of scientific data from a spacecraft
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  originally expected only run for five years.
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  The project manager Suzanne Dodd said quote every.
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  What saved now is a decision about what data humanity still
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  gets to learn from out there. In quote they didn't have enough
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  power to run everything, so they made a decision.
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  They turned off the things that was using power with limited
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  ROI, and they saved the power for the thing that was still
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  teaching them something new. How does this apply to you?
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  You have a finite amount of energy today.
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  It's draining whether you like it or not.
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  And you're running instruments right now that do nothing but
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  drain your power. The worry, the scrolling, the
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  old grudge, the argument you keep rehearsing.
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  You don't need more watts. You don't need more power.
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  You need to decide how you're using what you have.
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  You're a steward of your daily energy.
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  You need to decide what they keep alive.
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  Turn off what is uselessly draining energy.
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  Shut down the unimportant There's an opportunity cost
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  activities. When energy is used in one area,
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  it can't be used in another. Save the power for what still
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  sends something back. The better story to tell
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  yourself is I get to decide what my energy keeps alive.
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  You are a renewable resource, but not an endless one.
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  A 49 year old machine kept alive by people who refused to let it
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  go because they decided the data was worth it.
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  You get to make that same decision today.
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  Not about a spacecraft, but you tell me a story of stewarding
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  your power to from chadsmith@gmail.com.
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  Send someone a text and tell them guard your power.