New This Week: Give Up On Overnight Change, Embrace Compounding
A famous story tells of a king who challenged a travelling sage to a game of chess. The sage agreed, asking for a reward of rice if he won. Specifically, he asked that the king put a single grain of rice on the first chess square, then double it on every subsequent square. The King agreed and quickly lost the game. The stinger — with the power of Compounding the king would owe the sage about 2,000 times the annual world production of rice.
Find out more about Compounding, our featured model, and use it to challenge how you can create massive change with small consistent steps.
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