The incredible compounding power of this small investment...

If we gain a bit of extra pleasure in the short term, we gain only that.

If we, instead, invest that time into the long term, whether it be money or knowledge, we get the benefit of compounding - so that we can gain 10X (10 times) the benefit, with no extra effort!

The path to the great life is clear.  And it can only be in using the higher brain we were given and adding to it usable knowledge so that we are more and more capable of producing happiness and all that we want in life.  

It is clear that receiving a higher brain with the superpower of higher thinking can benefit us little if we don’t give it much material to use to our advantage, but so few put aside even 5 hours a week for life learning - but it will, even at age 80, accelerate our lives tremendously, as it gives us the thrust to launch ourselves into orbit around a newly created incredible level of living.


From the Farnam Street Blog:
The Surprising Power Of The Long Game