Learning About Leverage Will Save You Your Valuable Life Years

Dr. Ashish Bamania
Curious Medics
Published in
2 min readAug 17, 2023

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Archimedes using Leverage (Source: Shmoop)

What Is Leverage?

Leverage in simple words is a Force Multiplier.

One achieves greater output with the same input when they use leverage.

This is how I would teach a young person about the forms of leverage to apply in life.

Labour

A person alone can do ‘X’ amount of work in unit time.

On hiring 5 people, ‘5X’ the work can be done at the same time.

Capital

$500 invested at a 10% compounded annual return rate will return $39,086 in 5 years.

$5000 invested at a 10% compounded annual return rate will return $390,859 in 5 years.

Code

Work 8 hours a day, and deliver a product/ service to 3 people.

Write 100 lines of code and deliver a product/ service to 1 billion (with 0 marginal cost of product replication).

Content

Teach in a classroom and help 50 people learn a skill.

Write on Medium & record a YouTube video, and help 100 million people to learn the same skill.

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Dr. Ashish Bamania
Curious Medics

Self- Taught Software Engineer 👨‍💻 | Emergency Physician 🩺 | AIIMS, New Delhi 👨‍🎓| Free 'AI In 100 Images' : https://bamaniaashish.gumroad.com/l/visual_ai