Arithmetic and Geometrical

Life ain't Arithmetic Progression like 1, 2, 3... It's more like an exponent.

Let me show you:

When you're in kindergarten, you learn a, b, c. You paid a lot of effort in memorizing the letters.

When you're in Primary school, you learn how to build words with letters. You tried to remember the words and their meanings.

When you're in Secondary school, you learn the rules of using a language, eg. In English, you learn Grammar, Vocabulary and how to compose a meaningful article.

When you're taking a University degree, you'll be using the language radically. Each word could mean different things in different contexts and areas of study.


Well, my point is, on each level of education, you PAID SIGNIFICANTLY MUCH effort in making sense and remembering the things you learn. If you expect that the new stuffs you're gonna learn has slightly the same difficulty as before, you should progress relatively slow. Because the difference between each stage is HUGE. In order to move from baby to a kid, you absorb really much to grow. You eat like nobody's business. Then from a kid to teenager, you spend and buy on everything you see. Things develop much faster as you move on.

I recalled a paragraph from a basketball team. There was once ago Miami Heat (NBA basketball team) suffered because lack of talent. The players are below average, and only one or two guys (Eddie Jones responsible for almost all of the scoring load, while Alonzo Mourning was out due to injury). There was a quote to describe the team's situation:

In a good team, if a good player is injured, they may lose their chance to top the conference.

But if a bad team loses a good player, they could be out of the playoff's picture.

It is like if a millionaire dropped $1000, he could've frowned and forgot about it the next minute. But if a $1,500/month income guy dropped the same amount? You get what I mean, don't you?

So I wanna say, for people who is able to earn $100 per day and spend $80, slacking a few days is okay since they can recover the loss easily. But for the people who earn $80 per day and spend it all, slacking a few days could be fatal.

Life progress in exponents. The higher you get to the top the better.