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The Compound effect
- 172 pages · about 3 hours
- First published 2010
- 12 editions
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1 About this book
The Compound Effect is a short self-help book by Darren Hardy, who was the publisher of Success magazine. Its principle is that small, everyday decisions, repeated consistently over a long time, add up to very large results, for better or for worse. Six chapters cover the idea in action, choices, habits, momentum, influences and acceleration. Hardy presents it as a step-by-step system for getting rid of bad habits, building good ones and charting progress.
- Self-help
- Leadership
- Success
- Conduct of life
- Decision making
2 What to expect
A short motivational book on one principle: small daily choices, kept up over months and years, compound into large results. Chapters on choices, habits, momentum and influences turn this into a system, with an emphasis on tracking progress. It is brisk and upbeat, in the manner of a success seminar, and the idea is simple enough that the book repeats it often.
3 About Darren Hardy
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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