Key insights from
The Compound Effect
By Darren Hardy
Audio available
10 minute read
Published Oct 2, 2012
What you'll learn
Darren Hardy was making six figures by age 18. He was a homeowner in an upscale neighborhood by 20. By 27, he’d built and owned a business that was bringing in $50 million in annual revenue. The Compound Effect is a classic study of human achievement. It enumerates principles that Hardy derived from personal experience and by reading success literature as founder and publisher of SUCCESS magazine.
Key insights
- • What you'll learn
- 1 Your decisions will compound over time to make you the person you want to be or the person you never intended to be.
- 2 It’s less the poor choices in big things than in the small things that you should be worried about.
- 3 Good habits and hard work beat out talent all the time.
- 4 It’s toil on the front end to get life moving, but once it gets started, you’ll find your life getting unexpected boosts.
- 5 Your mind is a glass: increase exposure to clean water and avoid dirty water whenever possible.
- 6 Finding little ways to do “extra” will take your system from good to excellent and unique.