Jack Reacher's Rules

“He set the clock in his head for two hours, and he breathed in once, and he breathed out once, and then he fell asleep, almost instantly.”

Tune in to your circadian rhythms to set your personal internal alarm clock.

Four o’clock in the morning is the best time to attack. In the Army they call it KGB time.

“Clocks in prisons are bizarre. Why measure hours and minutes when people think in years and decades?”

THINGS YOU’LL NEVER HEAR REACHER SAY

Any idea what the time is?

“He knew what time it was to within about twenty seconds. It was an old skill, born of many long wakeful nights on active service.

When you’re waiting for something to happen, you close your body down like a beach house in winter and you let your mind lock on to the steady pace of the passing seconds. It’s like suspended animation. It saves energy and it lifts the responsibility for your heartbeat away from your unconscious brain and passes it on to some kind of a hidden clock. Makes a huge black space for thinking in.

But it keeps you just awake enough to be ready for whatever you need to be ready for.

And it means you always know what time it is.”