4. Practice for at least 20 hours.
To overcome the “frustration barrier” — that period in the beginning when you’re painfully incompetent and you know it — you must commit to sticking with your new activity for at least 20 hours. By that point,
you will be astounded at how good you are.
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Don’t have 10,000 hours to learn something new? That’s fine — all you need is 20.
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Writer Josh Kaufman, author of The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything…Fast and The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business, has figured out why so many of us get stopped in our tracks during this early learning period. He has a solution to tackle the problem.
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