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Bob Greene: I came across this cancer researcher named Robert Weinberg. He has worked at MIT in the same office for 51 years. People say to me sometimes, how could you stay at one place for so long? Greene: We all know the lives of academic gypsies who spend three years here, 14 years there and five years there. And each time they settle down, they make friends, social friends, colleagues.

There are so many times in life where what you do is less important than how long you've been doing it for.

It's true in careers.

It's true in relationships.

It's true in sports.

And it's true with money.

This episode is about compounding -- and how staying put, uninterrupted, is often the most overlooked skill.