All Selling Aside With Alex Mandossian

Have you ever heard of the Domino Effect? Gary Keller and Jay Papasan discuss this effect in their book The ONE Thing. Linked to the Domino Effect is the 1st Domino Principle. On November 13th, 2009, in the Netherlands, 4,491,863 dominos were lined up and toppled down with just one flick of the finger. This made the Guinness Book of World Records for the greatest sequential domino fall in history. The first domino toppling into the next resulted in 94,000 joules of energy being expended over the course of the line, which equals 545 pushups by the average human. The effect that first domino had on the whole line of dominos was truly astounding. Over 25 years prior to this event, Lorne Whitehead wrote a piece in the American Journal of Physics that he’d discovered that a domino can topple dominos 50% larger than themselves.  Using Whitehead’s research, if the 1st domino is 1” in height, the 10th domino would be the size of a 6’ tall man. The 18th would be the height of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. The 23rd would