If you were saving 10% of your income and an additional extra income equals to just 5% of your total income. RS 50000 was your income of which you saved 10% equals RS 10000. Now if your income rose by just 5% of total income equals 5% of RS 50000 equals Rs 2250, you do not speed up your financial freedom by that additional 5%, but by 50%. Yes, that's true! This is because what contributes to your financial freedom is your savings and not your income. A majority of the income goes to maintain your monthly expenditure while it is the savings that matter most to us. This is an extremely powerful concept. It often gets overlooked because of its simplicity. Let us look at the same example a little more in detail; that you earn 50,000/- per month and save 10% of your income (10% of 50,000/-= 5,000/-). This 5,000/- builds your wealth corpus slowly but surely. Now, if you are able to increase your income by just 5% and therefore your income now becomes 50,000/- × 1.05 =...