The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything... Fast! (Unabridged)
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4.6 • 5 Ratings
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
"Learn anything... fast!"
Take a moment to consider how many things you want to learn to do. What's on your list? What's holding you back from getting started? Are you worried about the time and effort it takes to acquire new skills - time you don't have and effort you can't spare?
Research suggests it takes 10,000 hours to develop a new skill. In this nonstop world when will you ever find that much time and energy?
To make matters worse, the early hours of practicing something new are always the most frustrating. That's why it's difficult to learn how to speak a new language, play an instrument, hit a golf ball, or shoot great photos. It's so much easier to watch TV or surf the web...
In The First 20 Hours, Josh Kaufman offers a systematic approach to rapid skill acquisition: how to learn any new skill as quickly as possible. His method shows you how to deconstruct complex skills, maximize productive practice, and remove common learning barriers. By completing just 20 hours of focused, deliberate practice you'll go from knowing absolutely nothing to performing noticeably well.
This method isn't theoretical: it's field-tested. Kaufman invites readers to join him as he field tests his approach by learning to program a Web application, play the ukulele, practice yoga, re-learn to touch type, get the hang of windsurfing, and study the world's oldest and most complex board game.
What do you want to learn?
Customer Reviews
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This book is a must read for a number of reasons.
First, I have mentioned the premise of this book to several people as I was waiting for it to come out and the default reaction was a guffaw or a "no way" as most people have it ingrained in their psyche that picking up new skills and rapidly be becoming great at them is an impossibility.
Josh Kaufman, a la Tim Ferriss, proves that when armed with a systematic plan of attack that ferrets out the important factors and a comprehensive way to work through new skills, not only is it possible but rather it is inevitable.
Too few people start trying to do anything like what Josh accomplishes six times in the book. His accomplishments in acquiring such diverse skills I think pokes yet another hole in the "talent" mythos as he shows what a smart, determined person can accomplish with relative ease.
If you're at all like me and are curious about the world and interested in a wide range of fields and endeavours ten this is a roadmap to vastly broaden your skill set and become a modern renaissance human.
Well done Josh! I'd actually give it six stars if I were able due to the vistas this book shows you how to open for maximum enjoyment of your own life!