Submitted by mantasmark t3_zq5al5 in GetMotivated
Throwaway-tan t1_j0x0p7b wrote
This is dumb. Pinning the tail on the donkey is easy, but do it blindfolded and spin around a few times and see how much more difficult it is.
Also most people think about changing the future by going back in time and doing one of the following:
- Killing someone who did something bad
- Manipulating games of chance to make themselves rich
Neither of thesr are exactly recommended courses of action to take without the context of hindsight.
action_lawyer_comics t1_j0x5veo wrote
Congratulations! You have successfully unraveled the metaphor. You may now return to your unexamined life and change nothing!
starlight_chaser t1_j0x7gwm wrote
Most people are trapped in time loops of some sort, that feel repetitive and unchangeable. And many are like “what’s the point of doing this small thing or that small thing, it’s not going to do anything significant or matter.”
The hindsight part of this doesn’t matter. More the mindset that hey, maybe the tiny things you do WILL cause a change. It’s a possibility. Isn’t that better than living the same reality anyway, being too jaded to even see if something can give?
NutellaSquirrel t1_j0yceu2 wrote
Seriously, people here seem to think the butterfly effect has something to do with effort, but it's nothing of the sort. It's about chaos which cannot be predicted.
Say I went for a jog one morning and wound up getting mugged. It went poorly, and I was shot and killed. My life ended, and that sent cause and effect ripples which affected other things in the world.
Now say instead I felt lazy that morning, so instead I went for a jog that afternoon. I was never at the same place and time as that mugger. I lived on never conceiving this other potential timeline, and I went on to do things which drastically affected the world in a different way.
Obviously this allegory is a bit hyperbolic, but you should get my point. The only thing I changed was the time of day I went for a jog, it had drastically different outcomes, and I would have had no foresight and therefore no real control over those outcomes. It just comes down to luck, causality, and chaos.
In order to harness the butterfly effect in the way /r/getmotivated would like you to, one would need to be supernaturally prescient, which is absurd.
I think the type of people who frequent this subreddit and find it helpful tend to believe they are much more in control of their lives than they really are, and suggesting otherwise is upsetting to them.
HERMES-PRIME t1_j0x1jsp wrote
I would probably do both those these things tbh
rleslievideo t1_j0ygdpq wrote
Or is calling things dumb with a positive potential actually dumb?
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