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Lagging measures

Pay attention to many of the things we place value on, they have lagging measures. Particularly with what we can see on the outside, the Results of work show no inkling towards the skill, time, or pain that had gone through to produce it.

Competence is a lagging measure of learning. Physique is a lagging measure of our habits around health.

This is an important concept to think about when we consider The nature of compounding. As it now makes the measure not just lagging, but exponentially lagging.

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