# The Small Steps of Giant Leaps - Farnam Street Synced: [[2024_08_21]] 11:53 AM Last Highlighted: [[2024_08_20]] Tags: [[Advice]] [[Explainer]] [[Personal Growth]] ![rw-book-cover](https://149664534.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Small-steps-of-giant-leaps.png) General yet still practical. Compounding interest is what makes a millionaire. Summary: One of the most beneficial skills you can learn in life is how to consistently put yourself in a good position. Strong positions are not an accident. Weak positions aren't bad luck. ## Highlights [[2024_08_20]] [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j5qg54ekttgfb3agckzc17a7) > The answer is as simple as it is frustrating. The position you find yourself in today is the accumulation of the small choices that you’ve been making for years. [[2024_08_20]] [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j5qg6qydas0382et6sfgd305) > Eating a chocolate bar right now won’t make you unhealthy. Just as not eating it won’t make you healthy. Saving money today won’t make you rich, just as not saving it won’t make you poor. Reading a chapter of a great book today won’t solve your problems just as not reading it won’t make them worse. > Not doing the obvious thing you know you should do — the thing that positions you for future success — rarely hurts you right away. > The small choices we make on a daily basis either work for us or against us. One choice puts time on your side. The other ensures it’s working against you. Time amplifies what you feed it. [[2024_08_20]] [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j5qg8nz406vjt5sfa6njzr56) > A lack of consistency keeps ordinary people from extraordinary results. It’s like we’re Sisyphus rolling a boulder halfway up the hill, only to throw our hands in the air and go home. When we show up the next day, we see the boulder at the bottom of the hill. Not only did this undermine our progress but it makes getting started even harder. [[2024_08_20]] [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j5qg9wja6dq6rtapkjnbx1rt) > When you look below the surface, giant leaps aren’t really giant leaps at all. They’re a series of ordinary choices that suddenly become noticeable. If you look for the magic moment, you’ll miss how ordinary becomes extraordinary.