The miracle of compounding returns is overwhelmed by the tyranny of compounding costs.
We must face our reality through literature.
我们可以从书店中感受到这些问题所造成的后果,当你像我一样到大型书店里的,自我帮助书籍类。如果你分析现在出版的这些自我帮助类书籍,它们基本上分成两种,第一种告诉你“你做得到!你能成功!没有不可能!”另外一种则教导你如何处理,我们婉转地称呼为“缺乏自信”,或是直接了当地称为“自我感觉极差”。
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all.