The First 20 Hours.how To Learn Anything By Josh Kaufman

We have all said it at one time or another, “if only I had more time.” Meanwhile, that list of goals never gets shorter. As an obsessed learning addict, I find nothing more frustrating than discovering a subject or skill that I really wish I had the time to learn properly. Malcolm Gladwell certainly didn’t help. In his 2011 bestselling book Outliers, he talks about how mastery of any subject takes 10,000 hours! How in the world will I ever accomplish anything if it takes that long to become good at something? Between my full-time career, writing on the side, and achieving the bare minimum of social interaction, I barely have time to sleep! Fortunately, I discovered Josh Kaufman, whose book The First 20 Hours attempts to dispel Gladwell’s theory by proposing you can acquire a new skill with just 20 hours of practice. In his book, Kaufman chronicles his experiences learning yoga, computer programming, windsurfing, the ancient Chinese board game “Go,” touch typing, and