a slight change - huge impact

a slight change - huge impact

by Dirk Depré - September 3, 2022

“The impact created by a change in your habits is similar to the effect of shifting the route of an airplane by just a few degrees. Imagine you are flying from Los Angeles to New York City. If a pilot leaving from LAX adjusts the heading just 3.5 degrees south, you will land in Washington, D.C., instead of New York. Such a small change is barely noticeable at takeoff—the nose of the airplane moves just a few feet—but when magni­fied across the entire United States, you end up hundreds of miles apart.”

This is a passage from the book Atomic Habits by James Clear.

A good example of persisting when you want change. Change does not happen overnight, but small adjustments in behavior do have a significant impact in the long term.

For me, it is also a great story about how you can bring understanding of change to an agile team that is undergoing an evolution.