<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignleft" src="https://www.getmotivation.com/images/ripple-effect.png" alt="The Ripple Effect" width="200" height="252" /><em>“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” &#8212; Margaret Mead</em></p>
<p>Have you ever heard of the <em>Butterfly Effect? </em></p>
<p>It was an idea invented in 1963 by a man named Edward Lorenz, that stated that &#8220;if a butterfly flapped it&#8217;s wings on one side of the world that it would cause a hurricane on the other side of the world.&#8221; Which is now called &#8220;<i>sensitive dependency on initial conditions.&#8221; </i> <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2014/03/ripple-effect-what-you-do-matters/" title="Permanent Link: The Ripple Effect &#8211; What You Do Matters" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":2152,"date":"2014-03-28T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=2152"},"modified":"2021-01-09T01:00:08","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T06:00:08","slug":"ripple-effect-what-you-do-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2014\/03\/ripple-effect-what-you-do-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ripple Effect &#8211; What You Do Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/ripple-effect.png\" alt=\"The Ripple Effect\" width=\"200\" height=\"252\" \/><em>\u201cNever doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.\u201d &#8212; Margaret Mead<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever heard of the <em>Butterfly Effect? <\/em><\/p>\n<p>It was an idea invented in 1963 by a man named Edward Lorenz, that stated that &#8220;if a butterfly flapped it&#8217;s wings on one side of the world that it would cause a hurricane on the other side of the world.&#8221; Which is now called &#8220;<i>sensitive dependency on initial conditions.&#8221; <\/i> <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2014\/03\/ripple-effect-what-you-do-matters\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: The Ripple Effect &#8211; What You Do Matters\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}