Coolmath and Competition
How a little penguin taught me about more than birds
Back in the olden day when I was in elementary school there was this Cool Math game called “Learn to Fly”. For a long time, I would spend the time on the game grinding and saving my money.
However, one day I was playing with another friend, and we were having a competition of who could beat the game the fastest. While I kept my conversative strategy of spending my money my friend would immediately upgrade to the best next item when he had the money for it. Unlike myself who would jump from a level 1 to a level 5 item without buying anything else. I noticed over the course of the game that he was progressively o
I realize now this was the first time I was introduced to the concept of the compound effect.
It was more advantageous to spend now because even though you had a marginal loss now the gain overtime would outweigh the cost that you spend. And you would be significantly better off at a point of time in the future.