Adrian Reid (speaker/uploader) discusses the central idea from Jeff Olson's book The Slight Edge: small, repeated daily decisions compound over time to produce major positive or negative outcomes. Reid illustrates with the apple vs. muffin example (health) and connects the same compounding idea to money, language, and financial behavior.
So everything compounds, either in the right direction or the wrong direction. I was fortunate enough to come across this book a long time ago now called the Slight Edge. And the Slight Edge, Jeff Olson, I think, is the author. Are you familiar with it? And that was fascinating to me because it talks about how all of our decisions compound, either in the right direction or the wrong direction. But each individual decision in itself is fairly inconsequential. We can sit down in the middle of the day and think, okay, I'm hungry. Do I have the apple or the muffin? The muffins not going to kill us. And the apple is not going to make us healthy, at least not in that one moment. But if we make that same decision over and over again, day after day, it has a compounding effect. Our health can compound by having the apple instead of the muffin, or our health can compound in the wrong direction by having the muffin. The words we use, the way we talk about money, the way we think about our finances, the way we, we, we treat our financial world is the same.
