For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse the rider was lost.
For want of a rider the message was lost.
For want of a message the battle was lost.
For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.
I am unsure if some of you had heard this rhyme/proverb but thought interesting enough to discuss here. I discovered it while reading about the "butterfly effect".
It reminds me of a time in the building game when the concrete supply company expressed how ultimately important it was to have the correct load/mix) on-board at delivery to site. Imagine the wrong mix going in on the foundations of a multi-million dollar build and having it literally fall over
WikiThis proverb has come down in many variations over the centuries. It describes a situation in which a failure to anticipate or correct some initially small dysfunction leads by successively more critical stages to an egregious outcome. The rhyme thereby relates a conjectural example of the "butterfly effect", an effect studied in chaos theory, involving sensitive dependence on small differences in initial conditions.
Do you have examples of similar? Just interested
