The Butterfly Effect: 20 small things to change your future

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May 26, 2023

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Essay of the week - The Butterfly Effect

This week, I spent some time compressing an old tweet of mine 👇

“When people talk about travelling to the past, they believe that doing something small can radically changing the present... but barely anyone in the present actually believes that by doing something small today, they can radically change the future” (link)

I wanted to figure out if is there a way to simplify this quote.

I came up with this 👇

Doing something small in the past would've radically changed your present.

Doing something small today will radically change your future.

Philosophically, this was an important thing to think about.

That’s when it hit me… there is a word for this effect. It’s called Ripple Effect

Ripple Effect is also called as Butterfly Effect.

“Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?”
Jamie L. Vernon says, The concept referred to as the butterfly effect has been embraced by popular culture, where the term is often used to emphasize the outsized significance of minute occurrences”

As I went deeper into this topic, I wanted to jot down a few small things we can do today that can have a huge impact on our future. I want to share 20 of them.

“Small things, the tiny details, these are the things that matter in life — the little glint in the eye, curve of a lip, nod of a head, wave of a hand — such minuscule movements have huge ripple effects.” — Shaun Hick

20 small things to change your future:

Writing often (If not, every day)
Creating more than consuming.
Leaving the place better than you found.
Walk (15-minute walks are a great start)
Buying stocks (Read Coffee Can Investing)
Read the book "Compound effect"
Brush twice a day.
Sell something (learn how to do sales)
Smiling more.
Let go.
Set a deadline for your goals. (Financial or otherwise)
Lift weights.
Make a new friend
Learn a new skill/language.
Travel.
Drink water.
Take care of your back. Exercise 4-5 times a week
Fall in love.
Go with your gut feeling.
Write a handwritten note and give it to someone.

"What would happen if you never wasted another minute of your life? How would your life look? Would you cure cancer, win a Nobel peace prize, figure out time travel so you can relive the minutes wasted, and improve upon them? Probably not. However, there are many impactful things you could do if you took the time to be intentional. If you are off track, a simple exercise you can do right now is take 5 minutes and plan out your next 5 hours." - Teronie Donaldson

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10 Interesting things for you 🙌

1. Love this guy - Adam Ellis

2. Something from my Twitter👇

(Tweet link)

3. Couple of weeks ago, I shared a Cococola Ad. Here’s how they made it (Blog)

This is the ad 👇

4. Battle of Thermopylae (Blog)

5. Interesting Photograph of the Week:-

6. Question of the week:- “What is enough?”

S/O to Xia for asking me this question 🙌

7. Satisfying video of the week:- Watch it at a custom speed of x0.8

Got to know about this video from this tweet.

8. Current read: My own note-taking app lol. I have so many notes that I haven’t connected yet.

9. Meme of the week:-

10. Quotes of the week:

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” -G. K. CHESTERTON
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“The handle of an axe is a traitor to his own race.” - Anon
(Tweet this quote)
“God creates dinosaurs, God destroys dinosaurs, God creates man, man destroys God, man creates dinosaurs,

Dinosaurs eat man… Women inherits the earth” - Jurassic Park
(Tweet this quote)

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