RULE 1
Find a place you trust, and then try trusting it for a while.

RULE 2
General duties of a student: Pull everything out of your teacher; pull everything out of your fellow students.

RULE 3
General duties of a teacher: Pull everything out of your students.

RULE 4
Consider everything an experiment.

RULE 5
Be self-disciplined: this means finding someone wise or smart and choosing to follow them. To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self-disciplined is to follow in a better way.

RULE 6
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail, there’s only make.

RULE 7
The only rule is work. If you work it will lead to something. It’s the people who do all of the work all of the time who eventually catch on to things.

RULE 8
Don’t try to create and analyze at the same time. They’re different processes.

RULE 9
Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It’s lighter than you think.

RULE 10
We’re breaking all the rules. Even our own rules. And how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities.
HINTS

Always be around. Come or go to everything. Always go to classes. Read anything you can get your hands on. Look at movies carefully, often. Save everything. It might come in handy later.

more general ideas:
https://archive.org/details/AlanKeyD1987_2

“Let go or be dragged”

"A pair of wings, a different respiratory system, which enabled us to travel through space, would in no way help us, for if we visited Mars or Venus while keeping the same senses, they would clothe everything we could see in the same aspect as the things of the Earth. The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of the is;"

The Liar's Workout
What’s the new psychological trick for improving performance? Strategic lying. When amateur golfers were told, falsely, that a club belonged to the professional golfer Ben Curtis, they putted better than other golfers using the same club. For a study published in March, human cyclists were pitted against a computer-generated opponent moving at, supposedly, the exact speed the cyclist had achieved in an earlier time trial. In fact, the avatars were moving 2 percent faster, and the human cyclists matched them, reaching new levels of speed. Lying is obviously not a long-term strategy — once you realize what’s going on, the effects may evaporate. It works as long as your trainer can keep the secret. Gretchen Reynolds