What Is Power?

Ajouté : 2026-05-24

[00:00:00]that if a person is successful, they must just be the best person. But this is a slippery road because it can lead to a point where you admire power for the sake of power. What it is is we worship power. Power by definition is work over change in time. This is all physics. This is all science, you know what I'm saying? So, let's look at this.

[00:00:17]The definition of work formula, right?

[00:00:20]Work is force multiplied by displacement. Displacement is a change in position. So, for instance, I have a car key right here. It goes over here.

[00:00:30]It has been displaced this distance.

[00:00:32]However, let's say I move it here and then move it right back to here, the displacement is zero because it's right where it started. It has traveled this total distance. So, let's say this is 1 m. The distance it's traveled is 2 m, but the displacement is zero, right? And so, force is, of course, defined as mass times acceleration. So, that is the the energy required to move this over here.

[00:01:00]That's the force. And then you multiply that by the amount that I've moved it and you get work. To make it do when you go to work. You're making [ __ ] happen, right? Now, let's look at the definition, the formula for power. See, it's so crazy how all this stuff I was like, "What's the application I'm going to have?" I was a computer science major. What application is this going to have later in my life going to physics classes in college before I dropped out and became a YouTuber, a successful YouTuber. Um you know, here it is. It's now being revealed, but I see how it applies not just to if you were to try and be an engineer, but just life in general. Power is work over change in time. Change in time, that's what that means. It's our time elapsed. So, for instance, someone who gets a lot of work done, so let's say put 100 where we have the double in a little bit of time, let's say in 1 minute, right? We'll use these numbers. That would equal a power of 100. 100 over 1 is 100. Now, let's say it took him the power would be 100.

[00:02:02]Let's say it took him 100 minutes to do it, you know, being consistent here. 100 over 100 is 1, meaning if it takes you a long time to get the same amount of work done, you have less power, right?

[00:02:14]Someone who has a lot of power can get a lot done comparatively in a short period of time.