Sunday Story…More “P”s

I often wonder about those huge water towers we see all over the landscape. Are they really full of water? Does it ever get used? When? How? Why?

The why is puzzling…I mean we have a pretty good system for water delivery for the most part and it just seems that pumping water up to a tower only to let it feedback down is remarkably inefficient.

On closer inspection, however, the necessary energy expenditure to meet the demand when all of us need water at the same time is waaaay bigger than the expenditure needed to send that water up to the top of the tower. So it is more efficient to do it that way.

Guess what? Planning ahead makes getting the job done consistently and efficiently way easier. Just like practicing your bar muscle-ups is more efficient than trying to figure it out on game day! Just like doing the progressions to get any skill perfected makes more sense than just trying to do the skill.

You can’t learn to drive by hopping into a race car that goes 200mph…you will just learn to crash! We learn to drive in an empty parking lot at 5mph and eventually we figure out how to go 200mph. There’s a bunch of stuff in life like this (most, actually)…proper planning (as well as preparation) also prevents poor performance!

John Mariotti
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