Are you using “butterfly effect” to your advantage?

The Butterfly Effect is a common cliché often used to describe how a simple is the starting point of a ripple in space that continually expands leading to a larger effect. Simply explained it goes something like this:

If a butterfly were to flap its wings in Manila in April, the long-term effect of this small action might result in a hurricane in Miami the following August.

This idea is based on research by MIT meteorologist Edward Lorenz. In 1960, he created a non-linear mathematical model for predicting the weather. His discovery, that a small shift in a single variable could, over time, create a much larger effect was truly revolutionary.

Understanding how the butterfly effect works can transform your life. It explains how some right action in a part of your life leads to few right outcomes in some other, seemingly unrelated area of your life. Do you experience it?