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The Compound Effect

Darren Hardy, 2010

Darren Hardy shows how small, smart choices repeated consistently over time add up to radical results, and how to track choices, change habits, build momentum and manage your influences.

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12 parts, about 21 minutes to read.

Why read it

  • Shows with worked numbers how small daily choices, repeated for long enough, produce results that look like overnight success
  • Gives a practical toolkit: tracking every choice in a notebook, breaking bad habits by their triggers, and building morning and evening routines
  • Explains how the people you spend time with, what you feed your mind and your surroundings quietly steer your choices

Who it is for

  • Readers who start goals but quit before results show
  • People building habits for fitness, money or work
  • Readers tired of quick fix success promises

What the summary covers

  1. No Quick Fix1 min
  2. Slow and Steady1 min
  3. Small Choices, Radical Difference2 min
  4. Choices2 min
  5. Track Every Choice2 min
  6. Habits3 min
  7. Momentum2 min
  8. Routines and Bookends1 min
  9. Rhythm and Consistency2 min
  10. Influences2 min
  11. Acceleration2 min
  12. Be the Exception1 min

Recommended by

  • Mark Victor HansenCocreator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series
    Use my friend Darren Hardy's brilliance to realize all your dreams, hopes, and desires.
  • T. Harv EkerAuthor of Secrets of the Millionaire Mind
    The Compound Effect will help you beat the competition, rise above your challenges, and create the life you deserve!

About the author

  • Darren HardyFormer publisher of SUCCESS magazine
    • He started his first business at age 18.
    • He was executive producer of three television networks focused on success.
    • He became publisher of SUCCESS magazine in 2007 and announced in December 2015 that he was leaving the role.
    • He was raised by his father, a university football coach and single dad.
    • The National Speakers Association gave him its Master of Influence designation for public speaking.
    • Besides The Compound Effect (2010), he wrote Living Your Best Year Ever (2011) and The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster (2015).
    • He sends a free five minute video mentoring message each weekday morning through his daily mentoring program.

Read it alongside

  • Goes deeperAtomic Habits

    Darren Hardy says the people you spend most time with may largely decide your success, so choose them deliberately; James Clear explains why: we often imitate the close, the many and the prestigious to belong, so what matters is which conduct the group treats as normal

  • Goes deeperWhy We Click

    Darren Hardy says your reference group can determine as much as 95 percent of your success or failure, so choose it deliberately. Kate Murphy says people unconsciously sync movements and moods, so emotions and behaviors spread between them, often unnoticed.

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