THE COMPOUND EFFECT BY DARREN HARDY

Quick Summary

In this book, Hardy simply details the beauty of compounding.

Start compounding!

Key Insights

• Smart Choices + Consistency + Time = RADICAL DIFFERENCE
• Wealth tends to skip a generation.
• Real and lasting success requires work—and lots of it!
• In essence, you make your choices, and then your choices make you.
• It’s the little things in life that will bite you.
• Take 100% responsibility for your life.
• Ordinary is easy. Choose extra-ordinary.
• Routine is exceptionally powerful.

Personal Application

1. Create a Thanksgiving journal for my wife (365 items of gratitude).
2. Focus on the small things because they matter and repeat daily.
3. Be the tortoise.

Meaningful Quotes (Optional)

• “You alone are responsible for what you do, don’t do, or how you respond to what’s done to you.”
• “A horse wins by a nose, but gets 10 times the prize money.”
• “Luck is an equal-opportunity distributor.”