The butterfly effect is one of the most interesting concepts ever.
The butterfly effect was thought of and named by Edward Lorenz.
In 1963, Lorenz, who was a meteorologist discovered that tiny changes at the start of his computer weather models had a result of anything from sunny skies to violent storms – which was completely unpredictable.
But what actually is the butterfly effect?
Well, what happened to Lorenz’s machine is applicable to larger scales in life.
The butterfly effect is the idea that something small can have much larger effects.
The butterfly effect rests on the notion that the world is interconnected, so that one tiny thing can influence a much larger consequence.
The most interesting thing about the butterfly effect is when you apply it to yourself.
It seems crazy to think that one decision somebody made hundreds of years ago in a completely different time to now, has created part of your world.
Have you ever thought about how you wouldn’t be alive without your parents, they wouldn’t be alive without their parents, who wouldn’t be alive without their parents and so on and so on, in a never-ending cycle; this is the butterfly effect.
Have you ever thought that if you hadn’t done something or had made a different decision years ago, you wouldn’t be where you are in life now; this, again, is the butterfly effect.
The decisions you make today will have an effect on your tomorrow.
The decisions you make tomorrow will have an effect on the day after.
And every single decision you make will have an effect on not just your but other people’s lives.
So next time you have a decision to make, think about the repercussions that it could have not only in the next week or two, but the next months, years, decades, centuries, and even millennia.
