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MI279: The Joys of Compounding w/ Gautam Baid

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The Power of Compounding Over Time

I love in your book how you delve into what we should be focusing on instead. The power of compounding is backloaded and very few people are able to become rich through long term investing because most of us lack the patience. Most of us succumb to instant gratification, but investing is a long term game. And the more time you give it, the lower the odds of disappointment. If you look at the compounding equation, which is the only variable which lies in the exponent, it is time. So you want to harness the exponential power of time in the compounding equations.

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