Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world… ~Sri Paramahansa Yogananda
It works simply because if you change, your change will affect at least 2 or 3 other people around you. Once they become sufficiently advanced in their change they will change 2-3 people
Thus a chain reaction is created
All those who make true progress, a progress that is sufficient to be nice without effort, a progress that that becomes a true magnet by having divine love and caring oozing from them, eventually a few people around them will change
This is the secret of chi/ prana/ magnetism