Compounding Love
1:3 > 3:1
Published: 1/1/2023
By: Andrew Neyer
Taking care of people is expensive. The costs often show up as increased expenses, physical exertion, and extreme emotional efforts. These tolls are why a lot of people refrain from adding dependents. It also depletes its sources.
That is why sharing concepts and solutions are ideal. The expenses to create a new concept or solution to a problem do not have to be repeated every time they are shared. Instead, the initial costs are solely absorbed by the creator. That is why good ideas spread extremely fast.
You’ve probably heard the saying,
“How do you starve a dog?...tell three people to feed it.”
Unfortunately, when we lighten our loads, it leaves too much room for neglect. We gotta lotta malnourished dogs out there, but there are even more people who need us. Instead, what if we tried out something more challenging? What if we all made a pact to feed and care for three strangers for their entire lives? That is extremely achievable. It’s difficult but doable.
If each of us would nose-dive on investing whole-heartily into three strangers (1:3), we’d get much more meaningful work done. With a narrow focus, we accomplish more in the long term. A seemingly small effort, such as 1:3 repeated, can compound at an alarming rate.
(Only five continued cycles of 1:3 produces 1:729.)
For example, we’re not going to solve poverty with money. We’ve tried money, and we’ve tried charity; we’ve even tried legislation. What if we just tried taking personal responsibility? It’s going to be you and me getting in the trenches, and each of us lifts three people out. 1:3. This reframing helps to calibrate our efforts to serve actual people, not a concept or theory. Of course, we’re gonna miss what we aim at, and in the short-term, it appears slower. But at least you got two people out into a better-suited environment. So, only aim at tacklin’ the World’s problems when your neighbor has a meal to eat tonight. Aim at three local people, and inspire them to do the same. Eventually, we’ll overlap globally (~20 compounded cycles from merely one source, as seen in Fig.1).
1:3 is alchemy.
(Steal this concept, please.)
Context
Fig. 1, 1:3 Compounding Love
*This illustration was made by taking a screen recording of my phone’s calculator multiplying 1 x 3 x 3 x 3 x 3…and then sending the .mov to a .gif converter. Next, I nabbed an iPhone stock photo, Photoshop’d it behind the .gif, and added the faux screen reflection over the top to make it feel snazzy.
Fig. 2, Sun Pin
By wearing this gold pin, you pledge to Live brighter and compound Love. The Sun Pin is designed to reflect the sun, so keep it clean because it will reflect Light best when properly maintained.
Thoughts
– What is stopping you from compounding Love?
– How long will it take before we overlap?
– Why not start today?
