In order to fully recognize return compounding insights and implications, one needs to view return compounding in different terms.  This article presents that view.  This differential, and previously ignored vantage point provides a unique view of the rugged equity market terrain that investors have recently traversed.  Further, this article presents returns in their correct behavioral state.  Returns are not inert raw materials for processing within the performance gritsmill.  Returns are vectors and as such, they have both magnitude and direction.  Presenting return compounding in differential terms with the returns in their correct behavioral state, allows this article to uniquely and fully convey the power of return coumpounding and its implications.