How To Learn Anything in 20 Hours - Josh Kauffma

How To Learn Anything in 20 Hours

Josh had a daughter two years ago. He thought that his life changed forever and that with his girl he will never find free-time again. This idea was so bothering for him as he was found of learning new things which needs obviously free-time. So he  decided to know more on how we learn by going to the library and he found the rule that said "It takes 10,000 hours to learn something new" everywhere.

"10,000 hours is a full time job for 5 years". How will you learn something ? You will never find 5 years of full time job. But, in fact you need 10,000 hours to reach the top of the of an ultra competitive field. A "society -wide game of telephone" have transformed it into it takes this time to become an expert at given field the to become good at something and finally to learn something.


This is the learning curve :

Source :http://www.intropsych.com/ch07_cognition/learning_curve.html

The beginning is slow and frustrating ? How much time does it take to overcome this barrier and to feel you know well something: 20 hours which can be seen as 45 minutes during a month.

It should be 20 hours of full concentration to fulfill their purpose.  

Josh give us 4 steps for learning:

1) Deconstruct the shell by deciding which abilities you want to acquire

2) Learn enough to self-correct as you practise

3) Remove all kinds f distractions which build a barrier 

4) Practise at least 20 hours 

Then Josh shows us how he learned to play Ukulele in 20 hours, he said there's only a small set of things that does really matters. Mastering only 4 or 5 chords is sufficient.