It was written by some somebody out in California I want to say up in the San Francisco area he was well anyway the concept of the book was this and this is true it's a true story they were these monkeys like spider monkeys or something on an island and they learned about yams but they couldn't eat the yams because they were sand all over them and they were monkeys on these other islands too that were inhabited with and that had yams on them as well and the idea was I mean the number 100 was an arbitrary number but at some point in time the monkeys on one of the island started taking the yams down to the water line and washing them and then they were able to eat them and at that moment when the this like consciousness occurred all the monkeys on the all the other islands started doing it too. Wow. And it was it was it was this was actually studied and so it was called the the hundredth monkey theory that when something reaches a certain gravity in the in the consciousness everybody benefits from it everybody gets it it could also be stressed everybody suffers from it

so yeah of course that makes sense yeah you know the interesting if you look at social networks I come from examining social networks and not just like Facebook but like like human beings had social networks before we ever had Facebook or Myspace or whatever what you notice is that you have a deep influence even on those you don't know and they can't really many studies have been done like you said on this they cannot explain exactly why and I'm not trying to give it some metaphysical explanation what I'm trying to say instead is we simply we we influence each other through many subtle signals even some of which we we we don't even understand consciously so we you know they call this the three degree of influence rule so imagine your person zero and all the people that you know around you a circle of people around you are group one and then the circle around them which they know your friends know but you do not those are group two so if you get fat you obviously you influence the people in group one to get fat because you know them they might be only you know he can't ten pounds he looks fine you know so they don't they don't feel like it's so bad if it happens to them but then they also influence group two and group three so they call this a three circles of influence rule and if you have the ability to be person zero you can have a huge impact on lots of people you may not understand why and you may feel like you're small but in fact you're very powerful if you give yourself the ability to that's

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