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There's this great quote from the Chinese philosopher, Lausu, who says, quote,

Nature is not in a hurry, yet everything is accomplished. So think about giant Sequoias and advanced organisms and towering mountain ranges.

Nature builds the most jaw-dropping features of the universe, and it does so silently,

without trying to get attention, where growth is almost never visible right now, but is staggering over long periods of time.

It is what I would call quiet compounding, and it's a wonder to watch it happen. I like the idea of

quietly compounding your money and just like in, it's where you'll find the most impressive results.

Every few years in the media you'll hear the story of a country bumpkin with no education and a low-wage job

who managed to save and compound sometimes literally tens of millions of dollars.

And the story is always the same.

They just quietly saved and invested for decades.

That's it. That's all they end up doing.

They never bragged. They never flaunted. They never

compared themselves to others. They never worried that their investments trailed

their benchmark last quarter.

Their entire financial universe was just contained to the walls of their home, which

allowed them to play their own game and be guided by nothing other than their own goals.

That was their own superpower.

That was actually their only financial skill, but it's the most powerful one of all.

Look, think about if you, after your first date with a partner, if you had to make every phone call and every

text and every conversation with that person public on social media. Or even

just with a small group of friends and family.

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