Butterfly effect

Due to those dynamic processes, one little perturbation at each one of the cycles can affect the others. I think we should take into account the idea of always trying to make the right decisions. This is because when one decision actually causes something to happen, you get that cascade effect that we are looking for leading to the success. I do not want you to get too bogged down with a neuroscience talk here, but I wanted to give the reader one example. Suppose your alarm goes off in the morning and you have two choices: you can either get up and take a shower and go to work or you can hit that snooze button just for like five more minutes of sleep and see what happens.

If you get up and have a shower all of a sudden you have started this positive cascade of emotions. In your head, you are already thinking: well, I have time to eat breakfast and meditate this morning before work, this is going to be great. I am feeling good. In doing so, your brain starts to release dopamine within your caudate nucleus (Positive psychology releases dopamine [1]).

2-Minute Neuroscience: Dopamine

As a consequence, you get different patterns that emerge in your brain, for example different parts get activated.