Michael Simmons explained why you should follow the five-hour rule. By consistently investing an hour a day in deliberate learning on every weekday, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Mark Zuckerberg, and Benjamin Franklin achieve many great things. Simmons wrote: “At the age of 10, Benjamin Franklin left formal schooling to become an apprentice to his father. As a teenager, he showed no particular talent or aptitude aside from his love of books. When he died a little over half a century later, he was America’s most respected statesman, its most famous inventor, a prolific author, and a successful entrepreneur. What happened between these two points to cause such a meteoric rise? Underlying the answer to this question is a success strategy for life that we can all use, and increasingly must use. 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.” (observer.com)
