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I think a seriously overlooked application of this principle is in nutrition and dieting. Over- or under- eating by a small percentage of your required intake might not have a discernible effect immediately but really adds up over time, both for weight loss and gain.
You’re talking addition and subtraction, compounding deals with multiplication.
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The truth is that you can't learn anything useful in an hour unless you don't know really, really basic things about life.
The concept of diminishing returns, perhaps, together with the corollary, by which I mean the fact that you can often get easier profits or make progress a lot more easily by switching to some less explored avenue.
On the contrary, it has taken me years to unlearn compound interest. When you start with relatively little, compound interest is relatively very unhelpful - it compounds wealth and benefits people who have started with something more than you. Twice as good at nothing is still nothing.
Exactly. People talk about compound interest as of it can make you rich. It can't. It might multiply your wealth by 2 or 3 in a country where the difference between rich and poor is a factor of 100.
CPR/Choking/First Aid course is probably close to an hour. How to change your own oil - probably lots of other money-saving home and auto DIY things... Speed reading and memory tricks can be a multiplier on learning other skills. How to use automation tools like Zapier and IFTTT - again, a force multiplier. You might be interested in this book https://www.amazon.com/First-20-Hours-Learn-Anything/dp/1591... - the auth…
I’m always amazed when the “change your own oil” option comes up in these discussions as it’s a very classic example where having specialized tools s and doing it a lot really speeds you up. And it’s a dirty job without a lot of intellectual interest. Further you can get it done for you in 10 minutes for approaching minimum wage. Unless you work on your car for fun and have things like a lift sitting around it seems…
With that said, if I spent the amount of time working on my career I spent on cars, I would be better off, so you aren't wrong.
Just explaining the reason why I STILL change my own oil, despite realizing the time cost.
First aid skills, e.g. Heimlich maneuver. You might end up saving someone's life by being able to act calmly and correctly.
How to do various knots comes to mind. Square knot, A sheet bend, clove and trucker's hitch, prusik, the alpine butterfly knot, and bowlines can all be learned rather quickly, then practiced so they can be remembered easily. http://paracord550milspec.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/How...
The problem with knots is that there are so many, and even the most popular ones have serious problems. For example, everyone recommends bowline, but it's unsafe without securing the working end. Everyone recommends square knot, but it's easy to tie incorrectly (getting a granny knot instead). Figuring out which knots to learn will take a lot longer than an hour. Here's my list: Overhand loop, figure eight follow-thr…