Warren Buffett’s One Move That Compounds Your Success Overnight (↑🌱 Plant This Today!)

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What if the single greatest investment on earth wasn’t a stock, real estate, or crypto… but something you already own 100% of and can start compounding TODAY, at zero cost?

Warren Buffett has been screaming this from the rooftops for 60+ years, yet 99% of people completely ignore it and stay stuck. Buffett turned $10,000 into more than $500 million (mostly after age 50) by ruthlessly planting one “seed” over and over.

Keep reading! Because in the next 4 minutes you’ll discover exactly what that seed is, why it compounds faster than any S&P 500 stock, and the dead-simple 5-step plan to start planting it this week.

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This week, we’re diving into Self-Improvement.

🔥Quote of the Week:

“The best investment you can make is in yourself.” – Warren Buffett

🤔Reflection:

Everyone wants Buffett-level results, but almost nobody copies Warren’s single highest-ROI habit: continuously upgrading his own knowledge, skills, and decision-making ability.
He still reads 500 pages a day. At 95. He spends millions on courses, mentors, and books, then calls it the cheapest money he’s ever spent. Because every new skill, insight, or connection compounds exactly like interest on money… except the returns are uncapped and tax-free forever.

In 2nd grade, I was blessed with a fantastic teacher by the name of Mrs. Whitfield. One of the absolutely awesome things she did was to install an old-fashioned claw-foot bathtub in the corner of her classroom and fill it with pillows. Whoever finished their assignment first got to choose a book from Mrs. Whitfields bookshelf and plop down in those pillows to read it. I chose The Toothpaste Millionaire by Jean Merrill. That book had a profound impact on my entrepreneurial spirit. Unfortunately, it would be many years later before I understood the joy of learning from books in general.

From grade school through high school, I absolutely detested the library. It was before computers and we had to utilize the card catalog to find the book we needed. I hated that. While in college, those horrible card catalogs were replaced with computers. Making it extremely easy to search for topics that interested me.

In 1998 my boss took us to the “Success ‘98” rally in Wichita, Kansas. I saw Zig Ziglar and Coach Lou Holtz speak live that day. That experience had a quite profound impact on me. I began reading the works of Zig Ziglar, Robert Kiyosaki, Tony Robbins and many others. My knowledge, mindset, and life, all three, began to change. The kid who once hated libraries eventually became a voracious reader. It was a life-changing revelation. Literally. Life-changing.

🏆Why This Can Be Your Superpower

When you invest in stocks, you’re limited by market returns.
When you invest in yourself, the ceiling disappears.

A 1% improvement in how you think, sell, negotiate, or lead can add six or seven figures to your lifetime earnings, often in months, not decades.

Buffett says the compounding of self-investment is so powerful that “by the time you’re 50 or 60, you’ll be shocked at how much better you’ve become.” He’s living proof.

🔬The Science Behind It

Your brain doesn’t retire at 30. It actually gets better at rewiring itself.

Neuroplasticity (the brain’s ability to form new neural pathways) stays robust well into your 70s and 80s. MRI studies from Cambridge University (2018 & 2021) showed that adults aged 35–65 who started deliberate practice in a new skill showed greater structural changes in the brain than college students doing the exact same training. Why? Maturity gives you a massive scaffolding of existing knowledge to hook the new skill onto. Think of it like adding rocket boosters to an already-built launchpad instead of starting from dirt.

Anders Ericsson (the godfather of the “10,000-hour rule”) spent his life proving that expert-level performance is built through deliberate practice, not talent. His later research destroyed the myth that you have to be young to reach mastery. In fact, his data on musicians, athletes, and chess grandmasters showed quite the opposite:

• People who begin serious deliberate practice after age 30 often surpass those who started as kids. Because adults bring focus, emotional regulation, and pattern recognition that children simply don’t possess yet.

• The average age of peak performance in most cognitive fields is now pushing into the mid-to-late 40s (and, it keeps climbing as we live longer, healthier lives).

Real-world proof:

• Warren Buffett made 99% of his wealth after age 50.

• Ray Kroc started McDonald’s at 52.

• Sam Walton exploded Walmart in his 40s and 50s.

• Colonel Sanders franchised KFC at 65.

Every single one of them was layering new business and marketing skills on top of decades of real-world scars and wisdom. That combination is lethal.

Bottom line:

In your 20s, learning a skill is like planting a tree in fresh soil.
In your 30s, 40s, and 50s, it’s like grafting a branch onto a 100-year-old oak. You get instant access to a massive root system of life experience. The growth curve isn’t linear; it’s explosive.That’s why Buffett says the returns on self-investment get higher every year you’re alive!

The older you are, the more every book you read, every mentor you hire, and every hour of deliberate practice is worth. Because you’re compounding on a bigger base of wisdom.

Most people think their best years are behind them. Science says your best upgrades are still in front of you. IF you start planting today.

🧬Stories That Bring It to Life

• Charlie Munger (Buffett’s partner) spent his 70s and 80s devouring books on psychology and biology. Then, he used that knowledge to make Berkshire billions of dollars while others retired to golf.

• Ray Dalio turned Bridgewater into the world’s largest hedge fund by obsessively studying his own mistakes and upgrading his “principles.” It was a direct copy of Buffett’s self-investment playbook.

• Sam Walton (Walmart) flew his own plane to tiny towns just to spy on competitors and learn better ways to run stores. Right up until the day he died. Sam was a multi-billionaire.

🏃‍♂️How to Start Today

• Pick ONE high-leverage skill that would move the needle most for you right now (sales, stock market investing, copywriting, negotiating, public speaking, etc.).

• Spend the first 60 minutes of your day on it. No exceptions.

• Buy the top 3 books/courses on that skill this week (under $300 total). If you are broke, make good use of your local library. If you own a business, ask your CPA if you can deduct the costs. Chances are good that you can.

• Find one person who’s 5–10 years ahead of you and offer to work for them for free in exchange for mentoring. This pro tip was utilized in the book, Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. You can find a comprehensive overview of it here.

• Track your daily progress in a simple “Skill Journal” (Buffett still does this). PRO TIP: Google Docs makes it really easy for you to go back and forth from your phone to computer with this.

🎇A Challenge to Spark Change

Your 30-Day “Buffett Compounding Challenge”

For the next 30 days:

• Invest the first hour of every morning in ONE chosen skill

• Read/listen to at least 30 minutes of high-level material daily

• Teach one thing you learned to someone else (teaching locks it in but make sure you have the right audience. Pigs hate singing.)

Do this for 12 months and I guarantee you’ll look back and barely recognize the 2025 version of you.

📖 📙A Great Book To Read On This Topic":

The Warren Buffett Way by Robert Hagstrom, The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel, & One Up On Wall Street by Peter Lynch.

(Grab all 3! They’re the closest thing to downloading Buffett’s operating system.)

PRO TIP: If you don’t have the time to read a book, try listening to it on Audible.

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🤔Congratulations!

You now own the single highest-ROI asset on the planet… YOU!
Start compounding it today.

Here’s to your ever-growing future!

Your friend,

Grant

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