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The 5-hour rule
In short, this is the rule where we spend one hour a day learning, reflecting, and thinking.
We do this five times a week.
The idea is that devoting an hour of your day to education exercises the mind, improves your skills, and rehearses great discipline.
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The anatomy of a day
There are 24 hours in a day, or 1,440 minutes. The average person sleeps around eight hours, that leaves 16 waking hours left to spend however we want. We need to subtract the seven to eight hours a day during which most people work; so, we’re down to nine remaining hours.
Much of those nin...
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"I've prioritized other things in my day"
The fact is that we all have the same number of hours in the day, and it’s up to us to decide how we spend them.
We each have our own personal values, concerns, and preferences.
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How to spend your hour
Here are three “first steps” to the 5-hour rule:
- Learn…however you can- Reading print on a book is one way, but podcasts, audiobooks, and spoken radio are all great ways to spend your hour.
- Experiment- The most successful people in life were not those who stum...
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What Is Five-hour Rule ?
The five-hour rule was coined by Michael Simmons, founder of Empact, who has written about it widely. The concept is wonderfully simple: No matter how busy successful people are, they always spend at least an hour a day — or five hours a work week — learning or practicing. And they do this across...
The 5-Hour Rule
The most successful, busy people in the world dedicate at least 5 hours a week to deliberate learning.
The 5-Hour Rule is the most critical practice we can all adopt for long-term career success. However, almost no-one takes it as seriously as they should.
The five-hour rule
No matter how busy successful people are, they always spend at least an hour a day (thus five hours a week) learning or practicing. And they do this across their entire career.
Barack Obama is far from the only leader to credit his success to reading. Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, O...
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