Andy Neary explains Separation Day: showing up when others don't compounds over time like interest. A high school student who keeps going while peers quit either catches up or pulls further ahead.
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Sure. Second principle, Separation day is a cousin of the third day, and it's all about how you create a little bit of a gap between you and your competition or your peers. Every time you show up on the third day and they don't show up on the third day, or if, let's say, the case like when I was in high school, if they're already ahead of you, you close the gap a little bit. But if you're equal or you're ahead of them, you open the gap a little bit more. So the separation day is really just about showing up when everybody else does not show up, and. And how that slowly, over time, begins to accumulate. It's kind of like compound interest. It doesn't seem like you made a whole lot of money from yesterday to today, but if you let it sit and you keep doing the right things over the course of decades, then it starts to add up, and then you realize that you made a good decision by showing up from the beginning.