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Law 5: Take Care of Your Health

This one is a more of a general rule but has big impact. The link between your body and your mind is stronger than most people give it credit for. The fact of the matter is, if you body is weak you mind will be too. There is a reason athlete do better in school …

Law 4: Get Good Sleep

Anyone who has studied learning at all should have come across this law before. It comes straight from your high school physiology textbook. Sleep is were your body stores everything you have learned over the day. I had one professor who taught us, and yes this was on the test, that if you pull one …

Law 3: The 10,000/1,000 Hour Rule

This rule is a bit tricky. I have discovered that people burn out if they just study one thing. You can break your studying into different parts, like a doctor studying the circulatory system on one day and the nervous system the next, but that only does so much. At some point you just need …

Law #2: The One Hour Rule

The 1 Hour Rule is very similar to the 5 hour rule that Benjamin Franklin followed. The only difference in it is one more day. To make it simple, Benjamin Franklin would spend one hour, Monday through Friday, working on improving himself wither by learning or experimentation. He contributed that to his success. Having said …

Law 1: 10% of Your Income to Learning

This rule is perhaps the one I get the most kickback on. What do you mean I need to put money to learning? Why so much? Isn’t their a less expensive option? Can’t I just do google searches? These are all great questions but there are really two reasons this rule is very important. Other …

Why the 12 rules of learning?

This might seem like a weird thing to start with. I am known for being very focused on giving practical advice for how best to learn. After all, that is what will really matter. Does it help to have a 14 page thesis paper written on how someone learns and going into brain imaging technology …