I still remember verbatim a comment from my tutor in my first college philosophy course: “I would encourage you to explore what I suspect might be a talent for philosophy.” It was followed by a disappointing “B+”. Never mind. I held on to that little bit of encouragement and ended up majoring in philosophy, getting a Masters with distinction, and a scholarship to do a Ph.D. in philosophy, where I met other people who thought I had a talent for philosophy. It all started with just a little bit of encouragement. I still remember the first and last name of that tutor and I am pretty sure that if you told him my first and last name right now, he would say, “Who?”.
Seth Godin, a man whom I have never met, writes a popular daily blog and encourages everyone else to do so too. He wrote that in one of his blog posts. I ended up taking him up on that this year. He just put it out there, encouraging everyone on planet Earth to do it, and I thought, “Yeah, that does sound like an interesting idea. I’ll do it.” Thanks for the encouragement, Seth.
A little encouragement goes a long way.
Encourage someone who might need courage. Who can you encourage?
What will they do? And what will what they do do?
I had always thought of the domino effect as a chain of linear cause and effect events. And I think that is what it means. But when I saw this gif below, it occurred to me that there is another type of domino effect, the domino snowball effect, the exponential domino effect.
Now you have even more reason to tip over some of those first small dominoes.
Think of what it could lead to.