Simple systems for the two areas of life that compound: your body and your capital. One principle runs through all of them — radical simplicity, held with discipline, over decades.
2 sessions a week. 6 exercises total. 1 heavy set each. Rep range 5–10. Add weight when you hit 10 clean reps. For the rest of your life.
How much muscle a man can realistically build — and the hard natural ceiling — for every height from 155 cm to 230 cm. FFMI 21–23 is realistic. 25 is the limit. Mirror as the measuring instrument.
Your savings rate — not your income — decides when you can retire. Save 10 %, retire in 51 years. Save 50 %, retire in 17. Save 80 %, retire in 5.6. Buy the index monthly.
Both the body and a portfolio are compounding systems. They don't care about intensity, intelligence, or luck. They care about one simple action, repeated for a decade — add weight to the bar when the set gets easy, buy the index when the paycheck lands. Everything else — the supplements, the hot stocks, the macros, the trading strategies — is noise sold by industries whose business model is complexity.
The barrier isn't information. The information fits on an index card. The barrier is boredom tolerance — doing the same ordinary thing, week after week, while novelty-starved brains and marketing budgets tell you to do something different. A man who runs both systems for a decade lands in the top 0.01 %. Not because he's extraordinary, but because consistency on ordinary things is the rarest thing humans do.
Pick a blueprint. Start today. Don't flinch.
Repeat for twenty years.