8 Timeless Skills to Learn Now in Under 8 Hours to Change your Life Forever

10,000 hours of deliberate practice is the amount of time it takes to be a top performer in a highly competitive field, according to Malcolm Gladwell in his book, Outliers .

In the past 13 months, I've proven time and again that you can learn valuable soft and hard skills in about 15 to 20 hours of practice. And I'm talking about starting from nothing. I've learned 39 new skills in the past 13 months. But I'm not the only one who has experimented with that. My original inspiration came from Josh Kaufman's TEDx talk, The First 20 Hours - How to Learn Anything .

Start with the following skills, in no particular order, with the exception of the first one:

• Learning to learn
• Writing
• Public speaking
• Meditation
• Forming good habits
• Negotiation
• Mathematical thinking
• Coordination and flexibility

When I started my journey to learning, I was slightly disorganized and didn't fully understand what I was getting into. With practice, I understood the importance of knowing how our brain truly works. Today, learning anything new isn't as hard as it used to be.

Just this month, I'm learning how to write a book in Spanish, composing epic music (starting from zero knowledge in music), developing backends in the Go language, and salsa dancing (again, starting from zero knowledge of dancing).