(Ebook) The First 20 Hours: How To Learn Anything...Fast! by Josh Kaufman ISBN 9780670921911, 0670921912, B00AFPVPDG

(Ebook) The First 20 Hours: How To Learn Anything...Fast! by Josh Kaufman ISBN 9780670921911, 0670921912, B00AFPVPDG

Research suggests it takes 10,000 hours to develop a new skill to mastery. In this nonstop world, who has that kind of time?  Learn anything . . . fast! Whatever you want to do with your life, you must master new skills. But where can you find the time? You are already busy - much too busy to spend the ten thousand hours authors like Malcolm Gladwell claim you’ll need to master a new skill. Moreover, the early hours of practising something new are always the most frustrating: If you can’t make it through the first twenty hours, you’ll never get to ten thousand. In The First 20 Hours, Josh Kaufman offers a systematic approach for acquiring new skills quickly with a small amount of practice each day. He shows how to deconstruct complex skills, maximise productive practise, and remove common learning barriers, creating a realistic framework for drastically cutting the time it takes to acquire any skill.  By completing just twenty hours of focused, deliberate practise you'll go from knowing absolutely nothing to performing noticeably well.  Kaufman invites readers to join him as he field tests his approach by learning to program a Web application, play the ukulele, practise yoga, get the hang of windsurfing, create illustrations, and study the world’s oldest and most complex board game.Whether you want to paint a portrait, launch a start-up, fly an aeroplane, or juggle flaming chainsaws, The First 20 Hours will help you pick up the essentials in record time and have more fun along the way.