Luck (Attitude) Butterfly Effect

Ali Anani

A Story to Tell

Two prisoners with opposite characters

were kept together in the same custodyOne prisoner was

active whereas the other was inert

A Story to Tell- 2

The two prisoners had a fight one day.

The prison guard decided to punish them by giving them only chickpeas for

lunchHe opened a small

window and poured out a small bag of chickpeas

A Story to Tell- 3

The active prisoner moved around and

collected the peas. The lazy prisoner did not

One chickpea was left.The active prisoner threw it at the lazy prison mate

and said “one for you”

A Story to Tell- 5

The lazy prisoner tried to chew the chickpea, but

instead he broke his toothIt turned out to be a dusty

gem

A Story to Tell- 6

If we repeat the same experiment million

times, the probability of the lazy man getting the jewel again is a remote

possibilityLuck does not strike your doors twice, or does it?

Luck Did Not Strike My Door

I remember I had four job offers. I had difficult

times to decide which one to

acceptFinally, I did

Luck Did Not Strike My Door- 2

Two days before me flying to where I was

supposed to start work, the second Gulf War

blew up.For political reasons I could not take the job

I lost my four jewels

The Butterfly Effect of Luck

Had I opted for any of the other

three jobs I would not have had that

experienceA small unlucky choice changed

the course of my life

Too Many Similar Stories to Tell

How about telling your

story?

I invite you to add one slide or

more to summarize one of your good or

bad luck

Sharing Luck

I wish you good luck

DOINA: my story

LOVE STORY: The 3-th time, I had luck!!!

Positive Note on Luck

Slide Contribution by Lori Kane is especially interesting

even though it spoiled in part my hidden intention. A bad luck today may turn into

great luck later

The luck of Ali and LoriI started blogging about self-organizing groups in July of 2009. I was looking for people who wanted to have an ongoing discussion about ourselves as these groups. On April 13, 2011, I found the first person willing to have this ongoing discussion with me. His name is Ali Anani. He responded to one of my posts and we’ve been talking ever since.

I had to write

59 blog posts

across 2 years

to find Ali.

Was I lucky

to find Ali?

More lucky

than mere words

can express...

Lucky Guess

Is it he or she?Some names and nicknames on

slideshare are strange to meI do not know if it is he or she?

Luckily, the English language uses your for both sexes. Your

presentation is great! I still try to figure out he from she by analyzing the writing.

Sometimes that helps.

My Luck Rings TwiceTwo Dedicated Presentations from Doina and Juao

Maya

THE GOLDEN POT FULL OF LUCK

Juao Maya’s ContributionIt is worthy of your time

I well know that right below in the right corner, there is a pot full of luck.

Or, may it be a pot full of gold?

Never mind: gold could be illustrative of luck... At the end of the rainbow

isn’t there a pot of gold?

But I look at this pot again. The fantasy that sometimes takes my mind

over tells me that it could be a witches’ stirring cauldron as well. Eventhough

a four-leaved clover replaces the usual black cat...

Going deeply on into my fantasy, I remember the Spanish proverb

that says: “Yo non creo en las brujas, pero que las hay, las hay!..” (I

don’t believe in witches, but they exist, they exist!... — please, forgive

the poor English translation).

Coming back to reality, I say: I don’t believe in luck, but that there’s luck,

there is!

So...

to us all, forever and ever!...

Sally Smith Contribution

Sally Smith added the next two slides. These

slides cause “rubbing of minds”.

Rub your mind fruitfully

I learnt from this presentation that:

Luck is not what you experience today; it is what unfolds for you in the future

A presentation dedicated to me from Rennis testimonial of this perspective

http://www.slideshare.net/renn/luck-and-butterfly-effect-chinese-style-widescreen

Attitude (Not Luck) Butterfly Effect

In Arabic, we have a word written exactly the same way, but may be read differently reflecting two different attitudes. The word is

Nashtam meaning to smell, orNashtum meaning to curse the flowersSame word giving two different meaning, depending how you “see it”

Attitude (Not Luck) Butterfly Effect

Likewise; we may smell or curse what happens to us

We call these happenings good luck or bad luck

It is in reality how we read them

It is our attitudes and mindsets

GEORGE SCIBERRAS Added his flavor of luck

Appreciation of Appreciation

Thanks are due to @abhishek for the embed of this presentation on Appitive.cpm and for the nice summary of the presentation.

http://appitive.com/slidershare/2012/01/30/luck-and-its-butterfly-effect/

Abhishek Summary of the presentation

Tags: Attitude, bad memories, butterfly effect, How

may I improve the outcome?, How may we reduce

risk?, new possibilities, Personal

experiences, spotlight, Why did I fail?

Ali Anani challenged us with the idea that luck has a butterfly effect based on his personal experiences. He invited readers to contribute their experiences. The result is a myriad of ideas. Luck Butterfly Effect shows how the attitude changes outcome. Small changes may have big impacts. Small changes in attitude from negative to less negative or more positive may influence greatly the come. Personal experiences and bad memories may have infacted our attitudes negatively. In turn, we manage businesses in a similar way. Turning complaints into positive questions may help a lot. Why did I fail? How may I improve the outcome? How may we reduce risk? Such questions open new possibilities.