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The 5-Hour Rule Used by Bill Gates, Jack Ma and Elon Musk (entrepreneur.com)
2 points by jedwhite on Aug 3, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


The five-hour rule was coined by Michael Simmons, founder of Empact. The concept is wonderfully simple: No matter how busy successful people are, they always “set aside at least an hour a day (or five hours a week) over their entire career for activities that can be classified as deliberate practice or learning.”

Simmons traces this phenomenon back to Ben Franklin. “Throughout Ben Franklin's adult life, he consistently invested roughly an hour a day in deliberate learning. I call this Franklin's five-hour rule: one hour a day on every weekday,” Simmons wrote.




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