Design Pattern: Design Enhancement Loops and Adjustment Loops

One key to design patterns is: connection.

There are four types of connections: causal chain, reinforcement loop, regulatory loop, and delayed feedback.

Four connections

We will use the matter of weight loss to help you understand these four connections.

The causal chain is very simple, just because, so. Everyone on earth knows that you can lose weight by eating less and exercising more.

What might be the reinforcing circuit for weight loss? Because you lose weight with self-discipline, you look good when you wear clothes and someone compliments you, so you become more self-disciplined to lose weight. It starts with self-discipline, goes full circle, and then returns to self-discipline, forming a loop.

Let’s talk about a statistic: 12 million people in the UK lose weight every year, and less than 10 can successfully lose weight. Looking at the whole world, people in other countries are no more self-disciplined than the British.

The question is, why do 90% of people fail?

Because there are still two eternal connections holding back, namely regulatory loops and lagging feedback.

What is a regulating loop?

If the enhancement loop is to continuously obtain energy replenishment, making the kinetic energy of the system higher and higher, then the adjustment loop is to continuously reduce the kinetic energy of the system, and the adjustment loop will always exist.

Besides the regulatory loop, there is another connection that is lagging behind: "hysteresis feedback."

When we do something, we all hope to see immediate results. Whether it’s wrong or right, it’s best to have timely feedback and give us a happy feedback. However, feedback is basically lagging behind.

So 90% of losing weight will fail, and 90% of starting a business will fail.

It is all because the core resources failed to support the adjustment loop and lagging feedback. Resources were penetrated and collapsed.

Psychological energy

What is the most core resource? It is the psychological energy of the person involved.

These two holding back loops will always exist. It is difficult for ordinary people to fight against losing weight, why can models fight against it? Because everyone’s survival mode is different.

In the model's survival mode, there is a clear enhancement circuit that continuously gains psychological energy.

A person is shaped by his own survival pattern.

Whether you are losing weight or doing something new, if you want to continue a cycle, temporary enthusiasm or willpower, as well as the resources at the beginning, cannot guarantee that you will sustain it and achieve success.

The only thing you can rely on is to design a model that allows your core resources to be continuously replenished through the enhancement loop.

This is why 90% of people fail to lose weight and 60% of gyms lose money. If your clients are not successful, how can you be successful?

It also changes people. We all know that New Oriental English is very powerful and has produced many famous teachers. What does New Oriental offer? English test knowledge? How to memorize words? This is a must. In addition, all teachers at New Oriental are good at telling jokes. This is to provide students with the psychological energy to persevere. Whether telling jokes or telling chicken soup stories, you may think these are just side effects, but they are actually the main point.

The difference between masters and low players is that they focus on different points.