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Law #10: Focus on What Will Be Used

This is one thing school gets wrong. School focuses a lot on what will never be used. You will be taught many names and dates that you won’t need to know to do your job. For example, any time the book discusses who came up with or discovered a thing. Take the discovery of DNA …

Law #7: Have a Mentor

Everything before this has been about getting rid of problems that hold people back from learning. This is the first one about speeding it up. That might seem weird to people but it’s important. About 80% of the pro…

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 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 …