Luck has a butterfly effect

1. Luck (Attitude) Butterfly Effect
Ali Anani

2. A Story to Tell
Two prisoners with
opposite characters
were kept together in
the same custody
One prisoner was
active whereas the
other was inert

3. 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
lunch
He opened a small
window and poured out a
small bag of chickpeas

4. 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”

5. A Story to Tell- 5
The lazy prisoner tried to
chew the chickpea, but
instead he broke his tooth
It turned out to be a dusty
gem

6. 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
possibility
Luck does not strike your
doors twice, or does it?

7. Luck Did Not Strike My Door
I remember I had
four job offers.
I had difficult
times to decide
which one to
accept
Finally, I did

8. 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

9. The Butterfly Effect of Luck
Had I opted for
any of the other
three jobs I would
not have had that
experience
A small unlucky
choice changed
the course of my
life

10. 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

11. Sharing Luck
I wish you good
luck

12. DOINA: my story
LOVE STORY: The 3-th time, I had luck!!!

13. 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

14. The luck of Ali and Lori
I 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...

15. Lucky Guess
Is it he or she?
Some names and nicknames on
slideshare are strange to me
I 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.

16. My Luck Rings Twice
Two Dedicated Presentations from Doina and Juao
Maya

19. Juao Maya’s Contribution
It is worthy of your time
THE GOLDEN POT FULL OF LUCK

20. 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...

21. to us all, forever and ever!...

22. Sally Smith Contribution
Sally Smith added the
next two slides. These
slides cause “rubbing of
minds”.
Rub your mind fruitfully

25. 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 Renn
is testimonial of this perspective

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

27. 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, or
Nashtum meaning to curse the
flowers
Same word giving two different
meaning, depending how you
“see it”

28. 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

29. GEORGE SCIBERRAS Added his
flavor of luck

32. 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/2012/0
1/30/luck-and-its-butterfly-effect/

33. Abhishek Summary
Ali Anani challenged us with the idea
of the presentation that luck has a butterfly effect based
on his personal experiences. He
Tags: Attitude, bad memories, butterfly effect, How invited readers to contribute their
may I improve the outcome?, How may we reduce experiences. The result is a myriad of
ideas. Luck Butterfly Effect shows
risk?, new possibilities, Personal
how the attitude changes outcome.
experiences, spotlight, Why did I fail? 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.