Life can often be utterly unpredictable. You do something right and you could not only be rewarded for it, but the reward itself could provide you with further opportunities to enrich yourself. On the other hand, if you do something bad, you might not only get punished for it, but the aftereffects of the punishment could make your situation worse and cause you to get stuck in a loop of negativity and adversity. Such chain reactions, in which the product of the reaction itself furthers the reaction, are said to be autocatalytic in nature. What is Autocatalysis? Autocatalysis is a chemical reaction in which the product of the reaction also acts as a catalyst for