I began to observe this concept several years ago. It did not feel right at all. It was a long time before I could explain to myself why. Time and resources do not come "properly" with a built-in manual. The majority of don't know what good looks like. It is only through making mistakes that they learn the rules. Not at 20, not always at 40. Self-knowledge is costly and time consuming. Wasted time, specifically. It is the years you have spent doing the wrong thing that eventually teaches you what the right thing is. No short cut through that. Your friend with the 20k. Why does the money have an expiry date? Real money doesn't expire, right? But time does. In such a manner that the analogy in fact contradicts itself, and I find it more useful than the original argument. Money provides you with choices. Time will not give you anything until you determine what to do with it. Huge difference. Compounding, as an idea, carries its own internal logic. Nevertheless, theory does not always withstand the confrontation with reality. Compounding is only effective when things continue to move in a similar direction. The majority of human lives are not directional, but messy, full of reversals, contradictions. You take three years to create something, and then your priorities change completely. The three years appear wasted in the new perspective but they were not. They got you here. I suppose it is this optimization mindset that is intruding upon everything. Not everything needs to compound. Not all things have to give output. Some parts of being alive are just being alive. Sitting with someone. Thinking about nothing. Looking up at the ceiling and thinking whatever you are thinking.
I began to observe this concept several years ago. It did not feel right at all. It was a long time before I could explain to myself why. Time and resources do not come "properly" with a built-in manual. The majority of don't know what good looks like. It is only through making mistakes that they learn the rules. Not at 20, not always at 40. Self-knowledge is costly and time consuming. Wasted time, specifically. It is the years you have spent doing the wrong thing that eventually teaches you what the right thing is. No short cut through that. Your friend with the 20k. Why does the money have an expiry date? Real money doesn't expire, right? But time does. In such a manner that the analogy in fact contradicts itself, and I find it more useful than the original argument. Money provides you with choices. Time will not give you anything until you determine what to do with it. Huge difference. Compounding, as an idea, carries its own internal logic. Nevertheless, theory does not always withstand the confrontation with reality. Compounding is only effective when things continue to move in a similar direction. The majority of human lives are not directional, but messy, full of reversals, contradictions. You take three years to create something, and then your priorities change completely. The three years appear wasted in the new perspective but they were not. They got you here. I suppose it is this optimization mindset that is intruding upon everything. Not everything needs to compound. Not all things have to give output. Some parts of being alive are just being alive. Sitting with someone. Thinking about nothing. Looking up at the ceiling and thinking whatever you are thinking.

I began to observe this concept several years ago. It did not feel right at all. It was a long time before I could explain to myself why. Time and resources do not come "properly" with a built-in manual. The majority of don't know what good looks like. It is only through making mistakes that they learn the rules. Not at 20, not always at 40. Self-knowledge is costly and time consuming. Wasted time, specifically. It is the years you have spent doing the wrong thing that eventually teaches you what the right thing is. No short cut through that. Your friend with the 20k. Why does the money have an expiry date? Real money doesn't expire, right? But time does. In such a manner that the analogy in fact contradicts itself, and I find it more useful than the original argument. Money provides you with choices. Time will not give you anything until you determine what to do with it. Huge difference. Compounding, as an idea, carries its own internal logic. Nevertheless, theory does not always withstand the confrontation with reality. Compounding is only effective when things continue to move in a similar direction. The majority of human lives are not directional, but messy, full of reversals, contradictions. You take three years to create something, and then your priorities change completely. The three years appear wasted in the new perspective but they were not. They got you here. I suppose it is this optimization mindset that is intruding upon everything. Not everything needs to compound. Not all things have to give output. Some parts of being alive are just being alive. Sitting with someone. Thinking about nothing. Looking up at the ceiling and thinking whatever you are thinking.

I began to observe this concept several years ago. It did not feel right at all. It was a long time before I could explain to myself why. Time and resources do not come "properly" with a built-in manual. The majority of don't know what good looks like. It is only through making mistakes that they learn the rules. Not at 20, not always at 40. Self-knowledge is costly and time consuming. Wasted time, specifically. It is the years you have spent doing the wrong thing that eventually teaches you what the right thing is. No short cut through that. Your friend with the 20k. Why does the money have an expiry date? Real money doesn't expire, right? But time does. In such a manner that the analogy in fact contradicts itself, and I find it more useful than the original argument. Money provides you with choices. Time will not give you anything until you determine what to do with it. Huge difference. Compounding, as an idea, carries its own internal logic. Nevertheless, theory does not always withstand the confrontation with reality. Compounding is only effective when things continue to move in a similar direction. The majority of human lives are not directional, but messy, full of reversals, contradictions. You take three years to create something, and then your priorities change completely. The three years appear wasted in the new perspective but they were not. They got you here. I suppose it is this optimization mindset that is intruding upon everything. Not everything needs to compound. Not all things have to give output. Some parts of being alive are just being alive. Sitting with someone. Thinking about nothing. Looking up at the ceiling and thinking whatever you are thinking.