Have you ever wanted to navigate patent law, learn a new programming language, solve for X in a Diophantine equation? How would you like to learn it almost automatically, without having to spend any extra time on it throughout your day?
I was first introduced to the term No Extra Time (NET) by Tony Robbins. While I had occasionally used my commute time productively, I wasn’t necessarily paying attention to the potential power that this force could have. That was years ago and learning something on my commute meant fumbling CD’s in and out of my car’s CD changer and trying to keep the order of them correct.
Now I have a library of iTunes and podcasts at my fingertips. And if I’m taking a train, there’s even more opportunity to learn from the rich video learning experiences available.
The true beauty of NET time is that its otherwise essentially wasted time. How can you use it?
The average commute for a person in the U.S. is somewhere around 26 minutes per day each way. 52 minutes a day times the average number of working days per year… I wonder if that’ll be enough to learn that thing you’ve always wanted to learn?
I bet it is. Have a productive commute.
