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The First 20 Hours How to Learn Anything . . . Fast!

Josh Kaufman

Forget the "10,000 hour rule"... what if it's possible to learn any new skill in 20 hours or less?

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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

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.

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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.

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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.

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