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Compound effect: Why should you never underestimate the power of compounding.

Domino effect: 🁭🁯 Do you know about the domino effect? If you know about it, then we'll done if you don't then let me explain. So, in the book 'The One Thing' by Gary Keller. He mentions that " In 1983, Lorne Whitehead wrote in the American Journal of Physics that he’d discovered that domino falls could not only topple many things, but they could also topple bigger things. He described how a single domino is capable of bringing down another domino that is actually 50 per cent larger. " You won't understand the power of the domino effect by a simple definition so let me explain it to you. Consider a domino 2 inches tall. So according to the definition, a domino can bring down another domino which is 50 percent larger. So the 2-inch domino can bring down a 3-inch domino and the 3-inch domino can bring down a 4.5-inch domino.  It's a geometric progression and you will be surprised to know that the 17th domino can topple a domino almost the size of the L...

Good things take time

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I will start the article with an example. Example   Let there be two guys Trevor and Noah . Both of them want to attract girls but they both take completely opposite ways. Both of them are in their teens but both live a very different life. Trevor Trevor's lifestyle is just like all the other teens. He goes out to parties, eats junk food(like me), goes to birthdays, does not exercise or meditate. Trevor has no intention of improving his life because no one among his friends does it. Trevor also suffers from depression, looks like shit, has a really bad acne, is skinny, does not have a lot of knowledge and has a terrible hairstyle. Trevor always tries to attract girls and so he chases after them and in turn girls call him a freak. Trevor attends every party in an attempt to get a girlfriend but fails miserably everytime. Noah Unlike Trevor, Noah goes to bed early and wakes up early, he does his homework properly. Although he attends some parties but he does not go into every party ...