Chasing Excellence

Chasing Excellence

The Default Is Decline

Daily Chase #223

Mar 13, 2026
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Our friend Dr. Rich Joseph explains something that sounds depressing but is actually liberating: the default is decline. Left alone, your body tends toward disorder. The second law of thermodynamics says that a closed system will move toward entropy. And while we’re not technically closed systems, the principle holds. Entr…

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