Tendency to Want to Do Something (Fight/Flight - Intervention - Demonstration of Value - etc.)

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1. Tendency to Want to Do Something (Fight/Flight - Intervention - Demonstration of Value - etc.)

Most organisms find a niche: a method of competing and behaving for survival. Usually - a species will select a niche for which it is best adapted. The danger arises when multiple species begin competing for the same niche - which can cause an extinction - there can be only so many species doing the same thing before limited resources give out.
We might term this Boredom Syndrome: Most humans have the tendency to need to act - even when their actions are not needed. We also tend to offer solutions even when we do not enough knowledge to solve the problem.
Related to scale - most important real-world results are subject to an eventual decrease of incremental value. A good example would be a poor family: Give them enough money to thrive - and they are no longer poor. But after a certain point - additional money will not improve their lot; there is a clear diminishing return of additional dollars at some roughly quantifiable point. Often - the law of diminishing returns veers into negative territory - i.e. - receiving too much money could destroy the poor family.
A network tends to become more valuable as nodes are added to the network: this is known as the network effect. An easy example is contrasting the development of the electricity system and the telephone system. If only one house has electricity - its inhabitants have gained immense value - but if only one house has a telephone - its inhabitants have gained nothing of use. Only with additional telephones does the phone network gain value. This network effect is widespread in the modern world and creates immense value for organizations and customers alike.

Tendency to Want to Do Something (Fight/Flight - Intervention - Demonstration of Value - etc.)

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