The Power of a Small Practice

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If you set rectangular blocks in a long line at regular interval and push down the first block, the rest fall down one after another. This is called “domino show.”

Dr. Lorne Whitehead of the University of British Columbia has experimented with dominoes’ hidden power. He made 13 blocks by increasing in size by 1.5 times, and measured the force that was generated when the blocks fell one by one. As a result, the force generated when the first block fell over the second block was about 0.024 μJ (microjoule), but the force increased exponentially, and it was 51 joule when the twelfth block fell over the last thirteenth block. That is even over two billion times more than the first force.

Just as a small block can knock down a big block, your success starts from a small thing, whatever you’re working at. Don’t try to do too many or too much, but do just one little thing today. Your dominoes toward the goal have already begun.