At the turn of the millennium, an inspiring film starring Haley Joel Osment of The Sixth Sense fame was released to mixed reviews.

This fictional tale chronicled 11-year-old Trevor McKinney's launch of what turned out to be a ‘viral’ goodwill movement.

Trevor’s social studies teacher, Eugene Simonet, asked for each member of his class to develop and put into action a plan that would in some small or big way change the world for the better.

Setting out to do just that Trevor calls his plan ‘Pay It Forward’, the title of the movie. Each goodwill recipient of the plan, initiated by Trevor, is charged with doing a good turn for three more people in need of help rather than them breaking the chain and stalling the plan by simply just paying the favour back directly to whoever had paid it forward.

Intentionally or otherwise Trevor’s plan was subject to the widely known Law of Compounding. Einstein is said to have called this mysterious mathematical multiplier ‘the most powerful force in the universe.’

It worked like magic, and the results were nothing short of miraculous.