What's the Butterfly Effect?

"I write for my wife and her one raised eyebrow every time i turd talk about any of this nonsense," he says. "It would be nice if i got tenure and became a professor and reached an of millions with this message, but maybe you just reach one person, and that one person becomes nelson mandella or something." The butterfly effect is the idea that it's possible to achieve anything by focusing on your own self-interest rather than what others are doing.