The physicist Erwin Schrödinger, in his 1944 book 'What Is Life?', argued that living organisms are remarkable precisely because they resist entropy — they temporarily impose local order on a universe trending toward disorder. The Bhagavad Gita offers a strikingly parallel insight: Krishna's concept of 'nishkama karma' (action without attachment to outcomes) is, in a sense, the psychological equivalent of this thermodynamic defiance. You cannot control whether markets correct, whether a project unravels, or whether disorder encroaches — but you can choose to bring disciplined, non-attached action to the present moment, maintaining your own internal order regardless of external entropy. In both biology and finance, the organisms and portfolios that survive aren't those that eliminate chaos, but those with robust internal structures that persist through it.

Where in your work or financial life are you expending energy trying to control outcomes, when that same energy could be building internal structure that survives any outcome?

Drawing from Indian Philosophy (Bhagavad Gita), cross-referenced with Thermodynamics and Biology — Erwin Schrödinger, cross-referenced with the Bhagavad Gita tradition