{"id":2224,"date":"2012-07-10T06:45:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T10:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifewithhappiness.com\/?p=2224"},"modified":"2018-10-02T13:36:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T17:36:46","slug":"happy-math-impact-a-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theexecutivehappinesscoach.com\/2012\/07\/happy-math-impact-a-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Math &#8212; Impact a Million!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>My friend Craig James of <a href=\"http:\/\/cat-strat.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cat-Strat.com<\/a> (a man who lives in abundant happiness) shared his vision of personal impact with me, and I called it Happy Math. \u00a0I am reprinting a portion of one of his blog posts to offer proof that you are AMAZING in your impact on the world.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #9400d3\">Zero Chance of Living<\/span><\/h3>\n<div>\n<div>\nA little story, and a little math&#8230;<br \/>\n(OK a<strong><em>\u00a0lot\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>of math):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A million years ago (50,000 generations); your 50,000th-great-grandparents had your 49,999th-great grandparent via what was likely a 1 in a million chance.\u00a0 i.e., parental units #50,000-ago, made the right right turns (crawls?) or left turn(s)&#8230; Those turns resulted in<em>\u00a0exactly<\/em>\u00a0that male meeting\u00a0<em>exactly\u00a0<\/em>that female &#8211; or not.\u00a0 One of them was eaten by some animal &#8211; or not.\u00a0 They conceived\u00a0<em>exactly<\/em>\u00a0that 49,999th-great-grandparent of yours &#8211; or not.<\/li>\n<li>Assuming the above, here&#8217;s the next generation:\u00a0 Again, say, 1 in a million chance that parental units #49,999 met, survived and conceived exactly #49,998 great-grandparent.\u00a0 The two generations and their combined probabilities = 1 in a (Million X Million) chance, or 1 in a Trillion chance that your beloved great-grandparent #49,998 ever existed.\u00a0\u00a0 And so on.<\/li>\n<li>So, before we get to YOU, we need to do about another million more years of math (i.e., do the above calculation, exponentially, another 49,997 times).\u00a0 The number is probably so huge that the zeros would fill the entire Universe.<\/li>\n<li>Thus, there was a 1 in a Number-as-huge-as-the-Universe chance that you should exist at all.\u00a0 Basically;\u00a0<strong>zero<\/strong>-chance you should be living.\u00a0 But you&#8217;re here.<\/li>\n<li>Whether validated through faith or science&#8230; obviously, if we are here&#8230; we are<em>\u00a0meant<\/em>\u00a0to be here<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #9400d3\">More math going forward (here&#8217;s the HAPPY MATH part!):<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you live 80 years and impact someone else in a meaningful way, just once a month, that&#8217;s a 1,000 important &#8220;life-impacts&#8221; you created throughout your life.\u00a0 Assuming each one of your 1,000 life-impact people maximized their own 1,000 impacts, in part, because of you&#8230; you will impact\u00a0<em>at least\u00a0<\/em>1 million people in your lifetime if you&#8217;re willing to look out just 1 degree&#8230;\u00a0 What&#8217;s more; that&#8217;s if you positively impact someone else just 1X per month.<\/li>\n<li>The calculation above doesn&#8217;t do the go-forward multi-generational exponential math we did in the ancestral exercise.\u00a0 Looking generations ahead, your impact is again a number as-huge-as-the-Universe.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So &#8211; If you think your life is meaningless:\u00a0 Are you sure?<br \/>\nIf you think you have some divine purpose in life:\u00a0 You&#8217;re probably right.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Craig James of Cat-Strat.com (a man who lives in abundant happiness) shared his vision of personal impact with me, and I called it Happy Math.  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