The importance of Creative Compounding

I'm a big believer in creative compounding, doing a little bit of creative work every single day for many years in a row. 20 minutes, 30 minutes, maybe an hour a day. That little bit of work each day can build big projects. It's hard for me not to compare it to physical fitness. Let's say you want to get in great shape. You drive yourself crazy trying to do that in short term, and you'd probably burn out, give up, and quit, and go back to the Doritos in about 3 weeks. But instead, if you made a daily practice, a system of doing something for 20 minutes every single morning, no matter what, for for 2 to 3 years, you're more likely to become addicted to that habit and worry less about your long-term goals and more about just doing your daily practice and letting that build up over time. My daily practice is drawing 1 or 2 pages of my graphic novel to warm up for the day. When I think of it as a creative warm-up, I don't worry about the long-term goal. I don't try to make things perfect. I just focus on doing the practice. Then after 2 or 3 years pass, you look at all the practice and it's compounded over time.