55/25/20 Rule

A rule with a number in it is a promise. 55/25/20 Rule promises that if you respect the figure, the figure will respect you.

The number is a fence. On one side lies intention, on the other side lies habit. Most of us live on the wrong side and write poetry about it. This rule simply asks you to climb the fence.

What this concept offers is a pause — one extra beat between what happens and what you do about it. Civilisation, someone said, is measured in that beat.

In every examination hall there are two kinds of silence: the silence of those who prepared, and the silence of those who are preparing excuses. The room can hear the difference.

Learning is the one wealth that survives every partition of fortune. One page cannot change a life. But one recognised pattern can change a Tuesday, and lives are made of Tuesdays.