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In 1960, Edward Lorenz, a research meteorologist at MIT, created a an incredibly accurate computer program designed to model the weather. Then, one day, Lorenz took a short-cut, rounding off a decimal point. But this tiny change made a huge difference. The popular notion was that if you barely change a cause, you'll barely alter the outcome. In fact, Lorenz saw that a tiny change could drastically affect the weather. The name for this phenomenon is called "the butterfly effect", that is, tiny changes brought about by a butterfly moving its wings in San Francisco can transform the weather in Shanghai. Even a subtle change in our thinking can have a butterfly effect on our lives. Lift your thinking just a little higher, and the outcome will be greater beyond your power to predict.
Mary Manin Morrissey
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