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Do at least five math problems.
Read at least one page of a book.
Write at least one sentence.
Watch at least one YouTube video on any of the following subjects:
- Discipline/Willpower
- Habits
- Learning
- Diet
- Exercise
- Psychology
- Philosophy
- Personal Finance
- History/biographies of famous people
- Freedom/Libocracy
Spend at least a half hour honing a skill that will increase your social value (e.g., learn how to ballroom dance, play the piano, speak a foreign language, tell jokes, make French macarons, ride a unicycle, or do a handstand).
Finally, spend at least a half hour honing a skill that will increase your economic value (e.g., learn how to code in Javascript, repair an iPhone, manage your time, subdue laziness, install solar panels, build a shed, or drive an 18-wheeler).
Follow these six rules every day as best you can—especially if you’re 25 or younger—and you will eventually be educated. You may not ever get accepted to an Ivy League school or be invited to give a TED talk, but you will become a better steward of your life (which is the primary purpose of education). If you’re a lowly associate for a giant retailer, you will soon be the manager of lowly associates for a giant retailer. If you’re a socially awkward buffoon, you will soon be interacting with friends, co-workers, and potential lovers with great aplomb. And if you’re a bumbling man-child who spent the better part of his free time in adult life sitting on a bar stool or a couch accomplishing nothing, you will soon take a welding class at your local community college and become a local celebrity by welding a life-size bison and then affixing that life-size bison to your front lawn.
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