This is a recursive throwback, that is a throwback to a throwback, since the post from 2 years ago was actually a post from 2 years before that, so essentially this is a throwback to 4 years ago! Which is why I'm calling it #TBT squared.The original post is from my old Empower Network blog.

From exactly 2 years ago! (And no, I didn't go looking for it…it's just the one that I selected)

Posted by Rick Tompkins on February 16, 2013

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A little law of attraction at work!

Yesterday I decided I was going to have a Pi Day party at my apartment and I received an email with a video called “Stretch for the Irrational”. Now, if you’re not a math geek you may not know that pi is an irrational number. That doesn’t mean that it acts irrationally (although that might be debatable), it means that it doesn’t reduce to a fraction (or ratio). A decimal number that can be expressed as a fraction (a rational number) must either terminate or repeat. That is .75 and .333 are rational because .75 terminates (it is equal to 3/4) and .333 repeats (and is equal to 1/3). Pi doesn’t terminate or repeat…it is equal to 3.14159 out to the 1st few decimal places, which makes it irrational. You can estimate pi with a fraction, such as 22/7, but you can never get an exact value of pi this way. (22/7 is equal to 3.14286…which differs from pi by .00127, which is pretty close for most normal people), but you can get fractions that are more and more accurate, like 355/113 and 103993/33102. You can go on forever, but you’ll never get an exact value.

And on a related (and still totally geeky) note:

American Pi

(http://www.livescience.com/22358-american-pi-us-population-hits-3-14-million.html)

“Math geeks everywhere observe Pi Day on March 14. But Aug. 14, 2012, is also a special day for the beloved and never-ending irrational number.

Just after 2:29 p.m. EDT today, the American population reached 314,159,265, or pi (3.14159265) times 100 million, according to the Census Bureau’s population clock.”

So, if any of you are still awake we’ll go on to talk about the video:

“You’ve got to stretch for the irrational.

You’ve got to stretch what you are doing and what you want, and make it completely irrational.

If you believe that something bigger is available to you, the universe cracks.”

-David Wood

See the video here: /blog/stretch-for-the-irrational/

I think the basic idea of the video is that if you stretch your mind to consider the irrational, the rational becomes easier to obtain.

An update to this blog post: This year I'm planning on spending Pi Day in LA at Casey Eberhart's Networking Riches event!

And here's an update to the update: I didn't go to Networking Riches then...I didn't go until May of last year, but it was a really good event,