After 18 months at my new job, I still have to look up my office phone number when asked for my contact information. My work involves numbers, a lot of numbers. They should be dear to me. But numbers mean everything and nothing. Most of the time they mean nothing.
Great, your income grew 200% two months ago and only fell 66% last month. You are still on a roll, aren’t you?
In reality, this is what happened:
Month 1: $100
Month 2: $300
Month 3: $100
If you grow $100 every month, you grow 100% the first, only 33% the second, 25% the third and only 8% the 12th. However, your income after a year of growth will be 12,000% compared to month one. No, numbers aren’t deceiving if you look at the right ones.