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Seeds

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Yes. Seeds. They are important. Day 1: Imagine Ted. It’s a big beautiful day and he starts sowing apple seeds. He waters. He sets everything straight for the seeds to grow. He sleeps Happy. Day 2: He gets up excited to see how his seeds are doing. It’s another fine day and the seeds are still asleep. Dormant. He waters. Couple years later, he has an apple tree; Giving out fruits and shade. He has thousands of apples now. He can eat all he wants. Let’s rewind. On the second day, how many apples did he get? Zero? I’d say he had 3. He just had to collect it later. The same happens with anything in life. Just like a fixed deposit in a bank compounds, so does your life. The sooner you start the better you get, soon. A day in the present may not mean much in value, and in the future when you collect, you would know exactly what that days’ worth. Let me inject a strong logical dosage here contrasting to the apple example. Suppose, you put up a fixed depo...