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All The Returns In Life Come From Successful Compounding

If you can get one crucial and repeatable act right, everything else won’t matter

Thomas Oppong
4 min readSep 30, 2021
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If winning is a habit, so is losing.

I’m a massive fan of reaping consistent rewards from small long-term choices.

Newton’s first law of motion states that a body at rest tends to stay at rest or, if it’s in motion, remains in motion unless something stops its momentum.

In other relatable words, people who get into a winning rhythm continue to gather small wins, stay in motion and end up achieving more in life.

All winners compound gains over time. “Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world, Einstein observed.

Compounding is a powerful force — leverage you can use in your favour to change your routines, habits and daily rituals.

Naval Ravikant is right when he says, “All the returns in life, whether in wealth, relationships, or knowledge, come from compound interest.”

If you are willing to commit to even one meaningful action every day/month, you will witness the snowball effect.

The compound effect has helped me build a writing career — two years ago, I chose to write and share in public almost every…

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Thomas Oppong
Thomas Oppong

Written by Thomas Oppong

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