What is the "5 hour rule" that celebrities are doing, including Bill Gates?

BySteve Jurvetson

Mr. Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, Mr. Earon Mask and Mark Zuckerberg, and Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, the world's largest investment holding companyWarren Buffett, Said to be the greatest black philanthropist in America's historyOprah WinfreyAlthough many celebrities send very busy everyday, it seems that they intentionally take 1 hour a day or 5 hours a week for learning. this"5 hour rule"Michael Simmons named that character is summarized from famous people's customs.

Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Oprah all use the 5-hour rule
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According to Simmons, if you divide the rule for 5 hours roughly, it can be classified into three categories, "reading", "thought" and "experiment."

1: Reading
Entrepreneurs who have become billionaire have many reading practices. For example, Warren Buffett has spent five hours a day reading five newspapers and 500 corporate reports over five hours, Bill Gates has 50 books a year, Mark Zuckerberg every two weeks I am reading at least one book. In addition, it is said that Earon Mask grew up reading two books a day. In the same way,Mark · CubanEvery day more than 3 hours,The Home DepotCo-founder ofArthur Blank2 hours a day,David RubensteinIs six books a week, the owner of Cleveland Cavaliers and the millionaire Dan Gilbert are reading books from 1 hour to 2 hours a day.

ByPedro Ribeiro Simões

2: Thoughts
LinkedIn'sJeff WeinerThe CEO has set up time for thinking for two hours a day,O2E BrandsThe founder of Brian Skew Damor seems to have more than 10 hours a week to think about.

Co-founder of LinkedInLead Garrett HoffmanWhen thinking about some idea, when help is needed, PayPal's founder Peter Seal andMax · Levucin, Or they call a friend such as Earon Mask. Hedge fund managerRay DarioHe said that when he makes a mistake he records information on mistakes on the system that is open to all employees of the company and sets time to locate the root cause.

In other words, successful celebrities have established business ideas, thinking time for themselves, and a system for thinking effectively.

ByMarina del Castell

3: Experiment
Google has established a "20% rule" that allows employees to challenge projects other than work except for work, with 20% of their working hours. Facebook "Hack-A-Months"We are building an environment where employees can freely challenge various ideas through Hackingon named"

ByPeter Megyeri

Mark Andreisen"In the interview," If you really spent the same time with the great CEO, Mark Zuckerberg and other great CEOs have a lot of knowledge on how to manage a company like encyclopedias However, it is also very difficult to acquire equivalent knowledge in the first half of 20s, so for many people to acquire skills 5 to 10 It is important to spend years of time, "he explains the importance of acquiring knowledge and skills.

To spend a long time without learning anything is "as cunning as not having a healthy lifestyle," AT & T CEOInterview with the New York TimesI am talking about in the same way and saying "at least technology will be obsolete if we do not set learning time of 5 to 10 hours a week."

It is "5 hour rule" that celebrities' habit of finding out that "There is a necessity to continuously learn after becoming an adult", but in order to carry out this on a continuous basis "To have time to read and learn, even if you are really busy" "Keep using the discovered time for learning without distracting your attention" "Tenfold effect from 1 hour of learning" It is important to remember.