5 good habits one former hedge funder says can be done in 5 minutes a day or less

Since the question “What are some good habits to follow?” was first posed on Quora, hundreds of people have stepped up with advice. Of course, there’s plenty of good stuff to glean from the flood of responses, but for the most part, we’ve heard it before. Eat your veggies. Get plenty of sleep. Break a sweat. Read a book. Put down the electronics and engage with a real-life human being. Etc.

But James Altucher, a best-selling author and former hedge-fund manager, chimed in on Thursday to offer some of his own tips that he says can be accomplished in less than five minutes a day. And, like the man himself, many of his recommendations might fall under the “quirky” category.

Read: This guy wants you to ditch your 401(k).

“Don’t fall for all of the ‘habit porn’... keep things simple,” he wrote. “You can’t make a habit in a day. Instead, use the 1% rule. If you try to improve a habit 1% a day, (a small tiny amount) you will improve it 3,800% a year. That makes you a superhero.”

With that in mind, here are five of Altucher’s “good habits to follow”: