This reminded me of a neat idea I once had :
Your investment-in-self could, in fact, be compounding. That might seem obvious, but consider this theoretical scenario : using intention manifestation to improve your skill of intention manifestation (this could also work with other meta-skills, like ability to learn). Lets say my intention manifestation skill is really lousy and my attempts to improve it through that same intention manifestation only end up as a +1% effectiveness. However, now that this skill has improved, I can use it again, and it will be more effective, improving it by a larger margin. I did the calculations sometime in past, and it turned out that, depending on the initial skill, this would sooner or later turn into exponential growth, producing
much more impressive results with each new attempt.
Eh, but it probably doesn't work that way
If it did, I could be something close to an arhmage in about 10 years, if I remember my calculations correctly
