The Butterfly Effect: What It Really Means—and What TikTok Gets Wrong

The Butterfly Effect: What It Really Means—and What TikTok Gets Wrong

Plus, relationship therapists share how the trend can be a tool for mindfulness.Elva Etienne / Getty ImagesLeave it to TikTok to take an abstract philosophy, spread it across the app, and use it as evidence for how they magically improved their life or met their partner. First, there was the invisible string theory and now everyone on the video-sharing platform is obsessing over the butterfly effect. This being the notion that small changes can …

In Every Morning, our life coach explains how the butterfly effect invites us to reflect on the connection between our decisions and their consequences, because sometimes, the minimum can transform everything.