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1. Exponential
Skill Growth

2. Many things are what we call a
"double edged sword."

3. This is one of those expressions that
some people throw around without
really understanding.

4. A sword with two edges means it cuts
both ways.

5. If you can imagine being in battle,
standing their pushing your sword
against your enemy, if he pushes it
back against you, you get cut by your
own sword.

6. As a metaphor, it's used to describe
something that can be both extremely
beneficial, if used correctly, or
extremely dangerous, if used
incorrectly.

7. One thing about humans is our brains
aren't really hard wired to understand
anything intuitively more than basic
math. Meaning if we want to
understand higher order math, we've
got to do some thinking.

8. That's why one misunderstood aspect
of mathematics is one of the most
potent "double edged swords" around.

9. What I'm referring to is the
exponential function.

10. Nature certainly understands
exponential growth.

11. Humans, on the other hand, don't.

12. Exponential growth is anything that
increases as a percent, rather than a
fixed about.

13. For example, if you've got a pile of
money, and every month you add
$100 to it.

14. It's ONLY going to grow at $100 a
month. In ten years, you'll have added
$12K.

15. On the other hand, if you've got a pile
of money and it increases by ten
PERCENT every month, you've got a
whole different ball game.

16. If you start with only $100, in ten years
you'll have over 8 MILLION dollars.

17. That's the positive aspect of
exponential growth.

18. The negative aspect, of course, is debt.

19. Since debt is based on percent, you
can be in deep trouble if you let any
amount of debt go too long.

20. I once read this list of the richest
fictional characters.

21. The richest one was one of those
vampire guys from the "Twilight"
movies.

22. And the only reason he was rich was
because he was 300 years old.

23. He'd put money in the bank and just
let it sit there for a couple hundred
years, and it grew into billions.

24. All on its own.

25. There are MANY ways you can apply
the exponential function.

26. One way is your skills.

27. Every time you learn, you get better at
learning.

28. Every skill you add to your vast
collection of skills, it just makes it even
easier to learn more skills.

29. And when you make those skills satisfy
these two requirements, you're living a
pretty good life.

30. What two requirements?

31. 1) You enjoy doing them.

32. 2) They make you a lot of money.

33. This is the secret of lasting wealth,
happiness, and prosperity.

34. Find something you like doing, that
makes you ANY amount of money, and
simply keep get better at doing it.

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