Compound Thinking is the Key
The magic is doing the simple things repeatedly and long enough to ignite the miracle of the Compound Effect — Darren Hardy.
Human beings tend to think linearly. Bill Gates once said;
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.
Compound thinking is thinking in terms of compounding and exponential growth.
When a baby is born, the first 2–4 years are the years of curiosity. The years of learning how to interact with people, walk, climb etc. Their imaginations are so wild you wonder if you were ever like that yourself. Fortunately, the answer is yes — you were, but society began to peel away that curious mindset at some point in your life.
FEAR OF FAILURE
I believe everyone has an element of the phenomenon, the fear of failure, in varying degrees, of course. However, I think the fear of failure is justified; failure and rejection cause unbearable pain, something we would rather not have to feel.
But something magical happens after going through failure repeatedly; you start to…
