Positive Feedback - Reinforcing Loops

One of the earliest concepts in my class has been the concept of "reinforcing loops". Referencing back to the bathroom example , time spent in the bathroom could allow damage to occur outside the bathroom which could in turn lead to one spending more time in the bathroom....and then more damage, etc. What is interesting is that these loops generally do not go on forever. At some point, some "balancing" occurs in order to slow or stop the growth process (one will have to come out of the bathroom sometime...). Balancing loops will be a topic for the next post.
I have been looking around my world for positive feedback loops and decided to take one very general one to model and run with it- the performance/motivation loop. This is one I will expand on in the upcoming posts. It can apply to ourselves (the more motivated I am to work, the better I will do and the better I do, the more motivated I am to work, etc). It can also be observed in our children (the more motivated child is- say, to behave - the better they will "perform" and the better they "perform", the more motivation available, etc). I find that adding candy (literally or figuratively) to the loops makes this pretty effective :-).

I thought this was general enough to start with and capable of expanding enough to help with my motivation to blog :-) and get the performance/motivation loop going in my own life.