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The first step is to deconstruct the skill into its basic, fundamental components.

This is in reference to the popularized Pareto's Principle, where the goal is to generate 80 percent of results by putting in 20 percent of the effort.

Our goal then should be to separate the 20 percent of our learning materials that will give us 80 percent of the result.

In his Ted Talk, Josh Kaufman believes that you don't need 10,000 hours to master a skill. As Kaufman elaborates, the key is to embrace the first 20 hours and learn the most important subset skills within that time frame to get the maximum amount of impact.

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Go Long

Go Long

Unfortunately, many of us give up before or during what Seth Godin calls "The Dip."

According to Godin:

Five Reasons You Might Fail to Become the Best in the World

1. You run out of time (and quit)

2. You run out of money (and quit)

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Practice, Practice And Repeat

Practice, Practice And Repeat

The key to mastering anything faster requires practice, and a lot of practice.

It requires frequency and persistence of performing the same skill over and over again, until you can do it subconsciously, without having to think about it.

Expert-level performance is primarily the result...

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Embrace The Transition

Embrace The Transition

Psychologists have also studied what's known as the transition cycle. 

The reason why this is important to visualize is, that if you can predict that a dip is coming whenever you're learning anything new, it's easier to fight through it.

More importantly, the dip is there ...

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We Want To Learn

We Want To Learn

For many of us, there are more things we want to learn than we have time .

Shortening the learning curve is a topic that's be...

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In 1960, while they were still an unknown high school rock band, the Beatles went to Hamburg, Germany to play in the local clubs.

The group was underpaid. The acoustics were terrible. The audiences were unappreciative. So what did the Beatles get out of the Hamburg experience?

Non-sto...

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Forget the Small Stuff

Pareto's 80/20 rule states that in any particular pursuit that we undertake, approximately 80 percent of the results may come from just 20 percent of our efforts.

If we identify and focus on the 20 percent that really matters we are more likely to live a simpler life more on...

Deconstruct the skill

Deconstruct the skill

...into its basic, fundamental components, to find the most important things to practice first. This shows that very few things actually make a difference in any aspect of our lives, including learning.

Use the Pareto Principle: which describes a goal of generating 80 percent...

The 80/20 approach vs. 10,000 hours rule

  • The 80/20 method: You can get 80 % proficiency in a subject in about 6 - 12 months.
  • The 10,000-hour rule: You can become an expert at something if you spend 10,000 hours of deliberate practice on it. 

To go from zero to 80% (good enough) requires a different...

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