The 5-hour rule: How to turn a wasted day into a successful one -
We each have the same 24 hours in the day. How will you spend yours?
https://bigthink.com/smart-skills/5-hour-rule/
"... according to "the 5-hour rule," how we choose to spend those hours might mean the difference between success and mediocrity."
"The average person sleeps around eight hours ... That leaves 16 waking hours left to spend ... 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 nine hours are taken up by life administration: shopping, housework, unpaid labor (e.g. care work), and eating and drinking. Of course, there are massive cultural differences lurking in that category ... The country where people spend the least time eating and drinking is the USA (63 minutes)."
... According to the OECD, "Around the world, women spend two to ten times more time on unpaid care work than men." This has a knock-on effect in how many leisure hours the genders have to spend."
"One of the key findings that comes up again and again is known as 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 (which makes up the "5-hour" rule). The rule dates to Benjamin Franklin, who would devote (at least) an hour each day specifically to learning something new. ... Today, Elon Musk, Oprah Winfrey, and Bill Gates all employ some version of the 5-hour rule.
The idea is that devoting an hour of your day to education exercises the mind, improves your skills, and rehearses great discipline. In education-speak, the 5-hour rule gives us both knowledge and skills."
"... here are three "first steps" to the 5-hour rule.
Experiment. ... The most successful people in life were not those who stumbled on some magic treasure in the woods, but who tried and failed, tried, and failed again.
"Reflect. Failure is only valuable insofar as it improves the future. In the words of Samuel Beckett, "Try again. Fail again. Fail better." Each failure is different, and each defeat is closer to victory than the last. There are many ways to reflect. For some, it might mean a diary, journal, or ten minutes spent simply ruminating. ... When we reflect on our days and our mistakes, we turn failures into learning experiences."
We each have the same 24 hours in the day. How will you spend yours?
https://bigthink.com/smart-skills/5-hour-rule/
"... according to "the 5-hour rule," how we choose to spend those hours might mean the difference between success and mediocrity."
"The average person sleeps around eight hours ... That leaves 16 waking hours left to spend ... 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 nine hours are taken up by life administration: shopping, housework, unpaid labor (e.g. care work), and eating and drinking. Of course, there are massive cultural differences lurking in that category ... The country where people spend the least time eating and drinking is the USA (63 minutes)."
... According to the OECD, "Around the world, women spend two to ten times more time on unpaid care work than men." This has a knock-on effect in how many leisure hours the genders have to spend."
"One of the key findings that comes up again and again is known as 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 (which makes up the "5-hour" rule). The rule dates to Benjamin Franklin, who would devote (at least) an hour each day specifically to learning something new. ... Today, Elon Musk, Oprah Winfrey, and Bill Gates all employ some version of the 5-hour rule.
The idea is that devoting an hour of your day to education exercises the mind, improves your skills, and rehearses great discipline. In education-speak, the 5-hour rule gives us both knowledge and skills."
"... here are three "first steps" to the 5-hour rule.
Learn…however you can. Reading print on a book is one way of learning, but it's not the only way. ... Today, podcasts, audiobooks, and spoken radio are all great ways to spend your hour. What's more, the internet is full of educational, entertaining, and enlightening long-form articles ...
In his book Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure, Tim Harford says success means we "first, seek out new ideas and try new things; second, when trying something new, do it on a scale where failure is survivable; third, seek out feedback and learn from your mistakes as you go along." Try something new. Try something differently. When we experiment, we both have fun and learn a great deal"
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