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How the Butterfly Effect Subtly but Significantly Shapes Your Life
And how you can cherish this intriguing concept from chaos theory in your daily life.
Can you think of a moment where seemingly nothing of great significance happened, yet the indirect consequences of it have drastically changed your life?
For example, I’d be in a completely different place today if a friend of mine hadn’t entered a board game night last year. That was the time when she reconnected with an old friend and later on, introduced me to that person who then became my mentor and supported me in writing my first book.
You’re surrounded by similar seemingly irrelevant events you can’t control. Yet, some of them end up having a disproportionally significant impact on your life.
In chaos theory, this phenomenon is called the “butterfly effect”.
The things that change the world are the tiny ones
Meteorologist and mathematician Edward Lorenz examined weather models back in the 1960s and to save time on his calculations, Lorenz rounded off a decimal in one of the numbers in the initial conditions of the simulation.
