I have an hour drive in and from work each and every day. I use this time to walk through many sorts of things for myself for the day or review and gleam from lessons learned from the day of work before. From concepts, streamlined programming methods, personal networking and business strategies, to communication skills, or even tonight’s star constellation patterns; I think about alot for fun. It is also here where I love to begin considering my thesis statements for essay assignments.
As I dwell on Cole’s assertion that “quantitative changes can make huge qualitative differences”, my mind begins to swirl with countless interpretations of this paradigm pertaining to my own personal experiences and everyday routine orthodox living. My imagination sparks paraelle to when Mark Wahlberg says in M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening “There are forces at work here beyond our control”. My mind discects factors of influence from my life both large and small; many of which are percieved subjectively large by not identifed as so by physical substance. Furthermore I believe it is true that the smaller things that impact my life the biggest certainly are the most fascinating.
Moreover when I consider the smallest of everyday things that impact my life, I began to identify objects. I objectified my house, my car, my attire and I knew I needed to get smaller. I got down to the plaque which can build in arteriol walls and then to the atom which landed me at a brickwall. I challenged myself what is even further wormholes? Then I found my own philosophical answer. In my opinion, what smallest of human influencers is the subtle silent and invisible quarks in one’s attitudes which can propel the largest overall change in the outcome of everything for one’s life including the environment around him/her.

I once heard that people behave and act a particular way only because that either they had previously witnessed that behavior or because of what they have done before. Moreover it becomes obvious that if you can habitualize your attitude(s), you can begin to make small changes to the impossible. This concept was fully captured for mewhen I spoke to Mr. Paul Loeb author of The impossible will take a little while last month here on campus.
Certainly I had found for myself a connection between his work and was further inspired by our classroom reading “A Matter of Scale” by Ms. Coleof whom I have personally pursued also beyond our class . The short essay began to work on me and probed me to think deeply about the small unseen worlds around us. Ms. Cole’s instructive examples in collaboration with Mr. Loeb’s works have helped me define to express my own feelings about how I see our human existence and the intricacies of what success is comprised.
In other words it is evident that so many small things seem to be critically important. Nothing is trivial. It is the same with human psychology says Cole in her book First you Build a Cloud on pg 208. She illustrates of how Newton tied the universe together with one common force called gravity. Even the great movie producer George Lucas has given us all the theological concept of the “living Force” from his saga Star Wars.

Anyway my point is that my attitude which can be undervalued and small in perceivable size is a scientific influence and in fact secret ruler of my everyday life. Cole speaks in her book in the later chapters about small physics and how they are formulas for a way of life… And as with the Butterfly effect’s explosion of small non-linear sequence of events, small variations of the initial condition of a dynamical system do produce large variations in the long term behavior of any system.

Such a system is my life. I consider my attitude toward roadblocks of my successes and how can I overcome them. My smallest attitudes then produce the greatest impact on my life like trying to knock each concepts down in succeeding order every day just as if they were all a row of delicately aligned dominoes. It is my attitudes which propel a constant steady momentum of force to continue along the daily line of trials and tribulations.

My life’s future changes every time I face it. It changes because I examine it with a confident positve attitude. Once I see any obsticle with a humble approach, I’m different. And that changes everything else. I feel I have this much “figured out” but I am working on the one which still leaves me paralyzed which is Carl Jung’s banished question “Why?”.

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