Edward Norton Lorenz in the 1960s,

is the theory that one small change in the starting condition of an event,

such as the flutter of an innocent butterfly soaring through the sky

can have a dramatic effect on the outcome of an event,

like cause a tornado on the other side of the world,

or less drastic, caused the plane to experience turbulence.

Edward first popularized the butterfly effect

after running weather forecast through a computer using precise variables,

and realizing that just a minut alteration of any given calculation,

such as wind speed, temperature or humidity,

caused a dramatic influence of the following two months worth of simulated weather predictions.

But this is by no means just the case with the weather,

but every single event, thought and outcome ever to have happened.

This is why you did not read the title wrong and I did not get you with click bait.

This video will have an impact on the outcome of your life

in ways you probably never thought until you learn about the butterfly effect.

So how can we relate and physically see this?

Well like I said every single event in reality is the result of a past action,

but there are some examples that will reminisce with all of us,

because the action started was so small,

it had such a devastating or positive outcome on all of our lives.

Let's take a look at a few of those examples

WW1 was an event that changed the course of all of our lives,

but what if WW1 never took place?

Well, that in theory could be equally as damaging

because another more devastating war may have broken out,

but just what if?

Well it's been theorized that if somehow a war did not happen,

there of course would be no WW2,

no Hitler rising to power,

no 60-plus million deaths.

And fast-forward many years, theory suggests that would be no tension with the Middle East,

no Taliban and no al Qaeda just to name a few.

But many say WW1 was destined to happen and they're probably right.

WW1 was a combination of many things,

but it can be narrowed down to one small event

that if altered could have changed it course entirely:

and that was the wrong turn and the stalling of a car.

A car that was carrying the Archduke of Austria Franz Ferdinand.

You see on the morning of Jun 28, 1914

Franz's car was attacked with a grenade,

which failed to hit its target but instead injured passengers of the car behind.

Later that day Franz wanted to visit those wounded by the blast

and lost on route, the driver of his car made a wrong turn down the street.

Standing outside a car on this very street

was 19 year-old Serbian Gavrilo Princip,

one of the men involved in the attack on Franz that morning.

He spotted the car had stalled, was trying to turn around in the road ,

run over and shot Franz and his wife dead.

If not for the wrong turn made by Franz's car, he would not be shot.

If he'd not been shot,

Austria-Hungary would not have declared war on home country of the man who shot him,

which caused Germany to declare war on Russia followed by France and Belgium,

causing the UK to declare war on Germany starting World War One.

Had Franz not been assassinated, WW1 would never have happened that way.

It may not have been prevented,

but it certainly would have started differently, potentially changing its outcome -

all because a car took a wrong turn and stalled in the middle of the road.

While on the subject of World Wars,

you may have heard before that one pull of the trigger

could have prevented WW2 and the death of over 60 million people.

Henry Tandey a British soldier

allegedly bumped into Adolf Hitler in a french village in 1918

when a wounded Hitler walked into his line of fire.

but Henry decided against shooting him

before a young Adolf nodded at him and walked away.

Had he shot him, Adolf would not have been the driving force behind WWII,

and it's anyone's guess what would have happened.

WW2 would have surely been different

and it may or may not have started,

which may have been for better or for worse,

because that would have had a knock-on effect on your ancestors

who may never had met because of the fact WWII never took place or had a different outcome

thus resulting in you never been born.

But think about this: if Henry had pulled the trigger,

although a war may have started 60 million people may not have died.

So just think: out of the 60 million who died,

they could have gone on to have children,

some of which could have been the next Einsteins or world-changing visionaries -

all because one man decided against pulling the trigger.

This one is interesting and it's quite popular,

because JFK had not been assassinated,

who knows what the outcome that would have had on the United States?

Well, what if it could be traced back to when he was around 20 years old,

that if he had chosen to do something different on one certain day,

he would not have been killed all those years later?

You see, in 1914, 23 years before he was assassinated,

he had an accident while playing sportsm,

which is thought to be the driving force behind his never-ending struggle with back pain.

If not for the back pain, he would not have won a back brace.

If he had not been wearing a back brace on the day he was assassinated,

he would have slumped or fallen after the first non-fatal shot hit him.

But instead he stayed upright because of his back brace,

allowing his body to be positioned perfectly for a second shot

Many experts have all agreed

if not for the back brace that was the result of years of lower back pain,

fueled from this sporting accident many years previously,

JFK would have been able to duck out the way out of the first shot

and the second fatal shot wouldn't have been feasible.

Take the handful of people who are late for work on the morning of 911,

or the fact that Seth Mac Farlane missed his flight because he was drunk the night before,

preventing being killed that day,

which would have been the end of Family Guy,

and the millions of hours spent by people watching a show

would have been spent doing something else,

which would have resulted in a different outcome for those people.

Take Elise O'Kane, united airlines flight attendant

who typed her fight schedule incorrect into the airline's computer system before 911,

which in turn led to her not being on her original scheduled flight 175.

Take the fact the US space shuttle's 2-side thruster Rockets

had to be made a smaller size

due to the fact they pass through many tunnels during transport, tunnels which were made 2,000 years ago

and were built at the time to just fit the width of two horses carrying a chariot.

As someone put it,

one of the most complicated and groundbreaking pieces of machinery in history

had to be designed to fit around the decision made 2,000 years ago.

Take this and hundreds of personal scenarios you can think of

relating to events that happened in your life,

and you wonder how things could have been different

for better or for worse if one little piece was taken away.

If my parents had never met, I would never have been born.

If I was never born,

the 3200 plus years that has been spent watching my videos by millions of people,

which has literally changed the outcome of the world in some way or another,

would never have happened.

Sure, everyone would have done other things in that time or watch the other videos,

but because it would have been different, maybe less or more time spent watching,

different conversations with people or different thoughts depending on which video you've watched,

a different outcome would result.

Now this is a question I do often ask myself:

I wonder if by someone sitting and watching one of my videos

that prevented them from maybe going outside and getting into trouble,

or that maybe those five minutes spent watching one of my videos or anyone else's video

meant they had something in common with a person

that led to them dating and potentially starting a family down the line.

Now I'm not the cause of that or taking any credit for a scenario like that,

but we are all here to serve a purpose one way or another,

and we all seem to shape each other's lives a lot more than we think.

And when you learn more about this, you will soon come to realize

as I explained why the title of this video is not clickbait.

The minutes you've spent watching this video has changed the outcome of your life

and in turn the lives of millions of others because your actions today will be different.

Some may be instant tiny things that happened today or this week,

but in time what happens today will have a snowball effect on the direction of your life,

which in turn can and will have a huge effect on everyone's life around you.

But what does all this mean?

Well, your life is precious

and is a result of billions of events that led to your existence

and the billions more that will become your future.

So go after that project you've always wanted to.

Ask that person out,

because ten years down the line you may have started a family with them.

I never underestimate the tiny actions you make,

because they can have an enormous outcome on not only your life

but potentially the lives of so many people for years to come.

So if you ever thought your life doesn't matter,

believe me, it really does.