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? We each have the same 24 hours available to us. What we do with those hours varies by culture and gender, but we each have at least a few hours to spend in leisure. The 5-hour rule asks us to devote at least one hour a day to learning, experimenting, and reflecting. It's a trick used by the richest and most successful people in the world. Here are three easy steps to start your own 5-hour rule. The anatomy of a day There are 24 hours in a day (or 1,440 minutes, if you really like to count your life away). The average person sleeps around eight hours (with the Dutch sleeping the most and the Singaporeans the least). That leaves 16 waking hours left to spend (I’m afraid those “learn while you’re sleeping” tapes aren’t likely to work ). We need to subtract the seven to eight hours a day during which most people work, though those sleepy Dutch work a bit less . So, we’re down to nine re...