“The Butterfly Effect” is the idea that small causes may have large effects in weather. Meteorologist Edward Norton Lorenz gave the example that the details of a tornado could be influenced by a minor perturbation such as a distant butterfly flapping its wings several weeks earlier.

In today’s world, it’s easy to think our decisions and actions may not have much effect. But like the flapping of a butterfly’s wings, we may have more impact than we realize.

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