Tuesday, May 29, 2018

The Butterfly Effect and Coaching Football

Well Folks, what you do and say has big consequences, many times unanticipated and unintended.  What is neat as a coach or teammate, you can sow great seeds for many people by taking the time to encourage or deliver a sincere positive remark towards an individual or group of individuals.  Imagine the power of an entire staff, squad or program that intentionally finds positives and shares them with one another.  Done day after day, practice after practice, game after game, the potential positive outcomes both short and long range are exponential.

If you are reading this, do an experiment.  Make a list of three positives about a loved one, friend or teammate and share them each day for a week.  Observe and record what happens.  You have the power inside you to change lives for the better in ways you never knew or could predict.


Butterfly effect

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A plot of Lorenz's strange attractor for values ρ=28, σ = 10, β = 8/3. The butterfly effect or sensitive dependence on initial conditions is the property of a dynamical system that, starting from any of various arbitrarily close alternative initial conditions on the attractor, the iterated points will become arbitrarily spread out from each other.
In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state.[1]

The term, coined by Edward Lorenz, is derived from the metaphorical example of the details of a tornado (the exact time of formation, the exact path taken) being influenced by minor perturbations such as the flapping of the wings of a distant butterflyseveral weeks earlier. Lorenz discovered the effect when he observed that runs of his weather model with initial condition data that was rounded in a seemingly inconsequential manner would fail to reproduce the results of runs with the unrounded initial condition data. A very small change in initial conditions had created a significantly different outcome



Sunday, May 20, 2018

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