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5 Jul 2023 · 0 min

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In this short monologue, the speaker frames investing as a marathon rather than a sprint. He explains that the initial phase of an investment can feel painfully slow, likened to watching grass grow, creating a large perceived gap between expectations and reality. Over time, however, the investment system begins to “kick into gear,” with compounding returns accelerating rapidly, allowing money to generate more money at an increasing rate. The speaker highlights the psychological challenge of enduring the early, slow period and the importance of patience to benefit from later acceleration.

Investing, it's a marathon, it's not a sprint. And it can feel like it's watching grass grow for the first period of time, but then it kind of kicks into gear and the system starts perpetuating and starts working, and your money is out there making more money for you, and it starts actually accelerating at a rate of knots. But to begin with, it can feel really confronting because the gap can feel really, really big.