The 5% Rules: A Recipe For True Mastery
Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career
Metalearning: First Draw a Map.
Why? Inspiring SMART goal.
What? A good way to do this is to write down on a sheet of paper three columns with the headings “Concepts,” “Facts,” and “Procedures.”
How? What are the typical ways of learning this subject or skill
A good life doesn’t ask you to be good at everything.
It asks you to find the small circle where you have unusual leverage, and to be peacefully average at most of the rest.
It’s like walking around with a metal detector over your own life, waiting for those little “beeps” of intensity.
One of the key findings that comes up again and again is known as the “5-hour rule.” In short, this is the rule where we spend one hour a day learning, reflecting, and thinking. We do this five times a week (which makes up the “5-hour” rule).
The 5-hour rule: How to turn a wasted day into a successful one
Recently, I've come across a few research studies that (just maybe) will make these difficult lifestyle changes a little bit easier. As you'll see, however, the approach to mastering many areas of life is somewhat counterintuitive.