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What is your personal tolerance for chaos? Maybe you only feel really alive and energized if you are doing several things at once and have a lot going on around you. In other words, you love the thrill of the rapids and will seek them out whenever possible! Maybe you are someone who prefers to work on one project at a time, and keep your surroundings calm and orderly. You really enjoy the pools of calm water and will paddle your way out of the rapids as quickly as possible. Neither of these styles is good or bad or right or wrong. They just are. Different people simply have different levels of tolerance for all of life’s frenetic activity. We call this level of tolerance your “coefficient for chaos” or CFC.

Your personal coefficient for chaos is probably a result of your genetic makeup and the environment in which you grew up. Many people cite their childhood as the factor that shaped their tolerance for chaos and noise. The interesting thing is that the same environment seems to affect different people in a variety of ways. Some people will say that since they grew up in a large and noisy family, they are very used to and comfortable with chaos. Others who came from a similar environment have chosen to have no children, or only one, and are very clear that a noisy chaotic environment is not what they want.

Exercise 3 will help you to plan your ideal course down the river by learning about your coefficient for chaos. Once you know your threshold of chaos, you can make choices and plan your time in a way that best fits your style.