It explored the idea that anyone can become reasonably proficient in a new skill within 20 hours of focused practice, challenging the prevailing 10,000-hour rule for mastery.
You're telling me it's actually 20 hours is the key.
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It explored the idea that anyone can become reasonably proficient in a new skill within 20 hours of focused practice, challenging the prevailing 10,000-hour rule for mastery.
You're telling me it's actually 20 hours is the key.
The narrative out on the market is you have to do 10,000 hours to learn anything.
Yes, or 40 minutes a day for about a month.
The TED talk for the first 20 hours did very well and I think part of it has to do with it's something we all have in common right like wanting or needing to learn something necessary useful fun cool not really having a whole lot of time like we're busy people we're busy culturally and so there's a bit of a conflicting desire there of like yeah I want I want to learn this but I don't have a whole lot of capacity to spare here.