At the peak of the pandemic, businesses and leaders saw it as a huge inflection point, a great opportunity for individuals to redefine strategies, workplaces, teams, and social contracts. But what they are afraid of is that, after this great opportunity, people will crawl out of the rubble and go back to old ways of working that frankly, hadn’t been working for us for decades.This time is your opportunity to learn from your peers. This is your opportunity to open up your curiosity, and make sure that you, your team, and your organization never goes back to work, but only goes forward.

Never go "back" to work; go forward to work

There were two myths of collaboration prior to the pandemic. One myth was that all collaboration starts with a meeting. And the other was that the more people you get involved in collaboration, the slower the decision-making. But that is just not true.In fact, we can utilize simple, high-return practices of asynchronous collaboration.That’s the most powerful takeaway from hybrid work: Instead of sticking to our old ways of synchronous meeting and collaboration, we can use a valuable new set of underutilized tools.

Collaboration starts before the meeting

In the olden days, mental and physical well-being were dealt with as individuals, sometimes shamefully in the shadows.But at the peak of the pandemic, we saw more vulnerability. We saw more openness. And with that, we saw more bonding and team cohesiveness.

Resilience is a team sport

Add a five-minute agenda item to your team meeting - the “foresight five minutes.” Before a meeting, everybody has been designated to come to that five minutes with a distinct way of looking at the world.One individual or group is looking at the world relative to competitive threats. Another one is looking at the world relative to technological changes and customer changes and macroeconomic policies and then the question is asked, “What risks and opportunities do we need to potentially move into an analysis meeting?”

Foresight is crowdsourced 

Today, we have to negotiate very clear outcomes-based weekly sprints of our work.What are each of us and each of our teams going to do this week? And then you allow empowerment during that week to achieve as much as they can achieve. And then a standup at the end of the week determines, what did we do? Where did we struggle, and where are we going for the next week? There’s a negotiation among the team to make sure that everyone is aligned, and off we go.

Move from "Crisis agile" to agile as your primary operating system

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Insights that will allow you to compete in the future of work

SPACING effect clearly shows that studying time is more efficient if it is spread out over multiple sessions than if it is compressed in one session.More exposures to information, separated in time, will result in better retention than if you cram them together in one burst.Advice-Your studying time should be evenly spread as possible throughout your daily schedule.

Spacing

This effect says that you must retrieve the important information from your memory rather than re-reading notes or referencing your textbooks.Advice : After your first time learning the material, the majority of subsequent studying should be in the form of retrieval or testing practice—trying to reproduce the information, solve a problem or explain an idea—without looking at the source.

Testing Effect

There’s a hierarchy of what kinds of study materials will be useful to you in preparing for your exam:<ol><li>The most valuable are mock tests and exams which are intended to be identical in style and form to the test you’re actually going to take.</li><li>Next are problems , given in assignments, textbook questions.</li><li>Finally, self-generated questions or written notes based on the material. </li></ol>This hierarchy of practice is known as transfer-appropriate processing. This basically means that the more your practice resembles the exam, the more your practice efforts will transfer into actual results.

Transfer-Appropriate Processing

Memorization matters, but it’s more often as a means to understanding rather than an end in itself.This means that deeply understanding the core concepts behind any exam you study for should be a top priority.For understanding a concept you can use feynman's technique, in this technique , one tries to put out any concept or topic that you want to study on a piece of paper as if you are explaining it to someone , and by using Simple language and terminologies.

Understand Rather Than Memorizing

Anxiety is another hurdle for your studying ability. It’s both harder to concentrate and the stress makes it harder to remember things, even if you could.The solution is to make at least some of your studying sessions a full-blown simulation of the exam. The benefits of these stimulations are:<ul><li>You increase your temporary anxiety while studying, which makes it easier to recall the information in stress conditions.</li><li>By exposing yourself to the exam situation you’ll be less anxious when the eventual test comes.</li><li>You’ll actually know what your performance is likely to be on the test!</li></ul>

Beat Anxiety By Stimulating

Exams are an important part of our lives, at every stage you have to give an exam( whether it is related to studies or life) ... So here's a complete guide that will help you to ace your next exam....

Don't make studying for your next exam harder than it has to be! Here's five strategies, backed by cognitive science, to ace your next big test.

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Five Scientific Steps to Ace Your Next Exam....

Chaotic learners are those that do not know what they don’t know yet, and also do not have a meta-model for their learning best practices. That is, they might know how they learn best, but in any case, they don’t know how to explain that to others.
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<li>Needs the team to deploy a diverse set of teaching strategies upfront to see “what sticks”.</li>
<li>Needs frequent and explicit push to reflect on what they’ve learned and how.</li>
<li>Might experience anxiety at proposals to share their learnings with their team.</li>
</ul>

Learning Styles: Chaotic Learners

These are people that think they know what they don’t know yet and have had success with a particular learning strategy in the past. They are eager to start working or studying in a way that was successful in the past but often dismiss/fail to recognize alternative strategies.
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<li>Needs the team to figure out how to shape starter projects in a particular way that works for the individual at the beginning.</li>
<li>If the learning strategy is not compatible with the beginner’s expectations, that may cause anxiety and distress.</li>
<li>Benefits from “fireside chats” where other team members explain how they learn.</li>
</ul>

Learning Styles: Unbalanced Learners

They are comfortable using a toolbox of various learning strategies and already have experience reflecting on their learnings.
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<li>Needs the team to listen to the learner and perhaps develop new projects or new project styles.</li>
<li>Often strategic learners are smarter about their learning process than the collective intuition of their team and that needs to be recognized/managed.</li>
<li>Feels empowered by invitations to share their learnings with their team.</li>
<li>Benefits from and enjoys interactions with a “sparring partner” to exercise strategies, reflect on learnings etc.</li>
</ul>

Learning Styles: Strategic Learners

This might occur with people who are unsure about who they are in relationship to their team and their organization.
Anxieties about personal validation, dignity, and respect.
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<li>Needs the team to spell out explicitly that diversity is celebrated.</li>
<li>Benefits from “fireside chats” where other team members share their experience of learning, and how their unique traits helped them</li>
<li>Benefits from being seen and respected outside of work assignments</li>
</ul>

Anxieties: Self-Affirmation Anxiety

This might occur with people who are unsure about their self-worth and relate their self-worth excessively to their performance at work.
Anxieties about performance validation, “how much is good enough”, impostor syndrome.
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<li>Needs and enjoys frequent performance feedback with both praise for achievements and constructive suggestions for areas of improvement.</li>
<li>Benefits from clarity about the reward structure.</li>
<li>Benefits from clear project outlines and strategy.</li>
<li>At risk of over-work and poor work-life balance</li>
</ul>

Anxieties: Performance Anxiety

This might occur with people who are hyper-aware of power dynamics and are afraid (or legitimately at risk) of being penalized by the group; either from past trauma, upbringing circumstances or ongoing experience in other social spheres.
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<li>Needs the team to spell out work responsibilities explicitly and upfront.</li>
<li>Needs the team to spell out governance rules explicitly: who is responsible for what, in particular:</li>
<li>who is responsible for offering help or support in case something unexpected happens.</li>
<li>what process to use to disclaim responsibility about an area of work.</li>
</ul>

Anxieties: Social Safety Anxiety

How to deal with different learning styles and anxieties

Say, you’re tasked with onboarding a new teammate, a new co-worker. You don’t know them well yet, but you want them to become effective at what the team does, quickly. You also want to quickly shore up their confidence, if that’s also needed. How to get there …

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Understanding the Beginner’s Mind  - How to deal with different learning styles and anxieties

This is why you want to expand your knowledge and skill repertoire so that you can gain some competitive advantage.Combine a handful of skills that are rarely linked to each other, rarely blended together.Examples:<ul><li class="ql-indent-1"> 	 Doctor& YouTuber/Streamer</li><li>Computer Science & SEO/SEM Marketing</li><li>UI Designer + Mathematician</li><li>Historian + Lawyer + Statistician</li><li>Programmer + Philosopher + Public Spe  aker</li></ul>

Thriving in the Technology Era is a Harsh Sport

You are not trying to master and combine 50 different random skills and juggle an overwhelming amount of snowballs that can ultimately melt in your hands.You are simply spreading your wings just a little bit more, a well thought spread I might say. Flying across the world of various skills and playgrounds that can be rarely found in the same mix.

View yourself as an Experimenter

"If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough."- Albert Einstein:::Meaning = if you are not able to translate your thought processes’ outputs into meaningful, actionable advice one can learn and build on is a huge loss for the future of humanity.A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_interface_design">UI designer</a> might be a skillful wizard with his craft, but making your project understandable for a non-designer, making him appreciate and then build on its true value, that’s a huge leap in our communication infrastructure.

Translate your thoughts 

In today’s world, if your phone is not in your pocket, it feels like you have missing limb syndrome.Whether we like it or not, we are already on our way to becoming a cyborg, on a real path to morphing into an AI symbiote.

Your Phone: The Missing Limb Syndrome

Engaging in the Public Speaking sphere is yet another handy practice one should think about.It not only forces you to think logically, critically, and also strategically, but it can act as a stepping stone for your future live endeavors. This skill has extended real-life applications.Having and engaging in difficult conversations will stretch out your mental apparatus, making you more organized and prepared for what’s yet to come.

Engage in Public Speaking

These are some thoughts on how to become a specialized generalist in the digital and non-digital era. 

This is why you want to expand your knowledge and skill repertoire so that you can gain some competitive advantage. My solution is quite simple: combining a handful of skills that are rarely linked…

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Micro-credentials are also known as digital badges collected through apps, websites or data systems. They demonstrate learning in work or community settings rather than inside an academic institution. For example, collecting badges for volunteering in a food bank, completing an online course or taking a workshop on coding.

Micro-credentials

A digital credential carries information about a learning achievement someone has earned. The credential includes the training provider, a description of the learning, when the credential was issued and who received it. These badges can be shared through social media, an e-portfolio or a CV. The benefit of micro-credentials is their potential reach to individuals of all ages, education levels, socioeconomic and racial/ethnic groups, and industry backgrounds.

How micro-credentials work

Pros<ul><li>Learners can use micro-credentials to “stack” new modules and skills on top of previous education and training.</li><li>They are more affordable and flexible than traditional higher education courses.</li></ul> Cons<ul><li>A potential obstacle is ensuring governments recognize these digital badges as steps on a learning path that might lead to the equivalent of a degree. </li></ul>

The pros and cons of micro-credentials

The pandemic has accelerated the arrival of the future of work, especially automation and the adoption of new technologies.
Four in 10 workers will need reskilling of six months or less, and over 90% of companies expect employees to pick up new skills on the job.

Future world of work

Micro-credentials – or digital badges – help you boost your skills in less time than a traditional degree. Here’s what you need to know.



Micro-credentials – what they are and how they can help you

“The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity. Usually, growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety.”

If you never fail, you aren’t aiming high enough. Without failure and pushing yourself to the limits, you’re unlikely to learn and grow rapidly.If you want to be excellent, you need to maintain a high degree of curiosity and remain on the steep part of the learning curve. This often means choosing to stretch yourself more than what is comfortable, but the long-run benefits of such an approach can bear lots of tasty fruit.

Excellence and Testing Your Limits

<ul><li>If you want to be the best, you have to take risks others would avoid, always optimizing the learning potential of the moment and turning adversity to your advantage. </li><li> When aiming for the top, your path requires an engaged, searching mind. You have to make obstacles spur you to creative new angles in the learning process. You should always come off an injury or a loss better than when you went down.</li><li>Big setbacks and adversity are often the greatest teachers. These are the moments where you confront the scary pain of life but have the opportunity to learn from them and grow.</li></ul>

Using Adversity As Fuel

“In my experience, successful people shoot for the stars, put their hearts on the line in every battle, and ultimately discover that the lessons learned from the pursuit of excellence mean much more than the immediate trophies and glory.”

“It is rarely a mysterious technique that drives us to the top, but rather a profound mastery of what may well be a basic skill set.”

We look at the world through a relative lens. You compare your success to your friends, not to the average. You compare your intelligence to your peers, not to other groups. Looking at everything through a relative lens gives meaning to opposite ends of a spectrum.

A Comparative Lens

“In the end, mastery involves discovering the most resonant information and integrating it so deeply and fully it disappears and allows us to fly free.”

Think about this: What emotional states fuel your performance? Once you know this, learn to create those emotional states through triggers or routines that put you in a state of creative expression and inspiration. Or learn to be effective in different states you face.

Use Your Emotions To Sharpen Your Game

Instead of always trying to be “on,” learn to take short rests to allow yourself to recharge. Your thinking is often clearer after a period of rest. <ul><li>To learn how to ebb and flow quickly between being “on” and “off,” introduce interval training into your exercise routine.</li><li> In between sets, you let things go and relax the mind.</li><li> Then, you get going again. </li></ul>Your new abilities will flow over into your performance outside of the gym as well.

Interval Training

When nothing exciting is going on, we might get bored, distracted, and disconnected from the moment. So we look for new entertainment, surf channels, and flip through magazines. When these societally induced tendencies translate into the learning process, they have a devastating effect.

Dealing With Distractions

“The secret is that everything is always on the line. The more present we are at practice, the more present we will be in competition, in the boardroom, at the exam, the operating table, the big stage. If we have any hope of attaining excellence, let alone of showing what we’ve got under pressure, we have to be prepared by a lifestyle of reinforcement. Presence must be like breathing.”

Handpicked sources to help you adapt to the mindset of lifelong learners

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A child chess champion and Tai Chi Chuan world champion describes his journies to the top, sharing the lessons he has learned and identifying key principles about learning and performance that readers can apply to their life goals.

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Josh Waitzkin knows what it means to be at the top of his game. A public figure since winning his first National Chess Championship at the age of nine, Waitzkin was catapulted into a media whirlwind as a teenager when his father's book "Searching for Bobby Fischer" was made into a major motion picture. After dominating the scholastic chess world for ten years, Waitzkin expanded his horizons, taking on the martial art Tai Chi Chuan and ultimately earning the title of World Champion. How was he able to reach the pinnacle of two disciplines that on the surface seem so different? "I've come to realize that what I am best at is not Tai Chi, and it is not chess," he says. "What I am best at is the art of learning."In his riveting new book, "The Art of Learning," Waitzkin tells his remarkable story of personal achievement and shares the principles of learning and performance that have propelled him to the top -- twice.With a narrative that combines heart-stopping martial arts wars and tense chess face-offs with life lessons that speak to all of us, "The Art of Learning" takes readers through Waitzkin's unique journey to excellence. He explains in clear detail how a well-thought-out, principled approach to learning is what separates success from failure. Waitzkin believes that achievement, even at the championship level, is a function of a lifestyle that fuels a creative, resilient growth process. Rather than focusing on climactic wins, Waitzkin reveals the inner workings of his everyday method, from systematically triggering intuitive breakthroughs, to honing techniques into states of remarkable potency, to mastering the art of performance psychology.Through his own example, Waitzkin explains how to embrace defeat and make mistakes work for you. Does your opponent make you angry? Waitzkin describes how to channel emotions into creative fuel. As he explains it, obstacles are not obstacles but challenges to overcome, to spur the growth process by turning weaknesses into strengths. He illustrates the exact routines that he has used in all of his competitions, whether mental or physical, so that you too can achieve your peak performance zone in any competitive or professional circumstance.In stories ranging from his early years taking on chess hustlers as a seven year old in New York City's Washington Square Park, to dealing with the pressures of having a film made about his life, to International Chess Championships in India, Hungary, and Brazil, to gripping battles against powerhouse fighters in Taiwan in the Push Hands World Championships, "The Art of Learning" encapsulates an extraordinary competitor's life lessons in a page-turning narrative.

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The Art of Learning:  An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance

Schools vary in their capacity, goals, resources, and focus, leaving considerable guesswork to applicants about where they might get in. Applying to more colleges, then, is a relatively cheap way to up your chances of finding a match that satisfies three criteria:<ul><li>You get in</li><li>You’ll be happy and successful there</li><li>You’ll have the opportunity get merit aid and financial assistance (if needed).</li></ul>

The Case for Applying to More Colleges

People might wonder about the downsides of applying to more schools, such as the cost. But, while each additional application costs money, schools will often waive the fee in cases where it would create a financial hardship.For example, Harvard waives the fee for students whom the fee would be a hardship, without any additional documentation required. If college application costs are a problem for a student or their family, waiving the fee is an option they should explore.

Obstacle #1: The cost

People wonder if rolling the dice too many times, hoping to get lucky, will land them at a school that is too hard and leave them worse off than had they applied to a smaller pool. But that is not what the evidence shows. In one experiment, economists Caroline Hoxby and Sarah Turner nudged high-achieving, low-income students to apply to more selective colleges and found that their academic performance was just as good as the performance of students in the control group, who attended less selective schools on average.

Obstacle #2: The gamble

People might wonder whether it’s just too time-consuming to apply to more schools. From a behavioral economics perspective, it’s easy to understand why. Even though parts of the college application process have become much easier with the common app, time costs remain a real concern, as some schools differ in, for example, essay requirements.Applicants should think hard about the costs versus the benefits. In terms of lifetime value, graduating from college is important.

Obstacle #3: The time commitment

With growing concerns of college debt, applying to more schools has the added appeal of increasing the chances that students will find a strong financial aid package. In fact, many applicants with financial needs might be surprised by some of the aid packages they are eligible to receive should they proactively seek more information.

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How Many Colleges Should You Apply to?

"Skill is the result of deliberate, consistent practice, and in early-stage practice, quantity and speed trump absolute quality. The faster and more often you practice, the more rapidly you’ll acquire the skill."

Josh Kaufman starts by highlighting it is likely you have a skill you have always wanted to learn. For instance, maybe it’s competently playing the piano, doing well on the tennis court, or becoming conversational in French. Crucially, it is never too late to learn your chosen skill. One of the most common regrets is wishing one had pursued a skill earlier. Subsequently, humans will often quickly give up before even becoming familiar with the basics because they believe it’s too late.

Use Rapid Skill Acquisition to Learn Within 20 Hours

This is where we can use rapid skill acquisition to kickstart our experience. Through using this technique, you can become competent in various desirable skills by putting in 20 hours of work. These 20 hours will allow you to become acquainted with the basics, but skill mastery will require more than these initial 20 hours of investment.

The first few hours of learning something new are always the hardest, and this is where most people give up. However, if you break your initial 20 hours down into an hour of practice per day, you will rapidly improve. You will then find it considerably easier to continue building your skillset after you’ve completed the first 20 hours. Once you get through the first 20 hours, you’ll have a significant amount of practice under your belt, and further practice won’t be as difficult. Making the most of these initial 20 hours relies on adopting the ten principles of rapid skill acquisition.

<ol><li>Choose a lovable project.</li><li>Focus your energy on one skill at a time.</li><li>Define your target performance level.</li><li>Deconstruct the skill into subskills.</li><li>Obtain critical tools.</li><li>Eliminate barriers to practice.</li><li>Make dedicated time for practice.</li><li>Create fast feedback loops.</li><li>Practice by the clock in short bursts.</li><li>Emphasize quantity and speed.</li></ol>

Ten Principles of Rapid Skill Acquisition

"The trouble comes when we confuse learning with skill acquisition. If you want to acquire a new skill, you must practice it in context. Learning enhances practice, but it doesn’t replace it. If performance matters, learning alone is never enough."

There are probably many skills you’d like to acquire. Still, an essential first step of rapid skill acquisition is choosing to focus on one. Start by making a list of all the skills you’re interested in, and pick the one most exciting to you right now. This excitement will help you stay motivated through your practice.

Learn Your Chosen Skill By Focusing Your Energy

Don’t try to learn multiple new concepts at once because you’ll progress slowly, which is not motivating at all. Did you know you can achieve a magical “flow” state by spending more time focusing?Josh Kaufman explains that you should practice in 20-minute bursts so that you can focus all your energy on your chosen learning task. On top of this, these bursts should be characterized by deliberate and consistent practices. Hence, quantity and speed are more important than the quality of your learning. The faster and more often you practice, the more rapidly you’ll acquire the skill.

<ol><li>Research the skill and related topics.</li><li>Jump in over your head.</li><li>Identify mental models and mental hooks.</li><li>Imagine the opposite of what you want.</li><li>Talk to practitioners to set expectations.</li><li>Eliminate distractions in your environment.</li><li>Use spaced repetition and reinforcement for memorization.</li><li>Create scaffolds and checklists.</li><li>Make and test predictions.</li><li>Honor your biology.</li></ol>

Ten Major Principles of Effective Learning

Deciding how talented you want to become at your chosen skill is the third principle in rapid skill acquisition. This is called your target performance level. It’s important because if you can envision the end goal, it’ll be easier to get there. Decide what level of skill is “good enough” for you. For example, if you’re learning to play an instrument, consider whether you want to play a few songs by heart or you want to jump into a jam session.

Choose Your Skill Level

As well as choosing your skill level, you also have to utilize smaller steps. Break your chosen skills down into bite-sized pieces you can tackle one by one. You don’t attempt to down an entire meal in one bite, and you shouldn’t try to learn a skill in one swing. By dividing up the work ahead of you, progress will be easier, and the steps you need to take to succeed will be more clear-cut.

Utilize Smaller Steps 

As well as defining the specific skill level you want to pursue, Kaufman also suggests you need to identify the tools you need to succeed at your skill level. These tools are the fundamental building blocks of your skill. For example, for Kaufman’s ukulele pursuit, the first tool he required was a working ukulele. Though this is a simple step, it is essential to find what materials and environments you’ll need to succeed in learning a new skill.

Acquire the Tools You Need

When learning a skill, there will always be barriers that interfere with your learning process. Therefore, consider any emotional roadblocks that may stand in your path, like fear or self-doubt, as well as distractions (like a ringing phone). After completing this process, try to eliminate any hindrances.

Limit Distractions

"If you rely on finding time to do something, it will never be done. If you want to find time, you must make time."

In today’s world, people are busier than ever. So, if you want to learn a new skill, you need to make time to practice. This is Kaufman’s seventh principle of rapid skill acquisition. Identify other activities in your life that you aren’t fond of, and work to cut those out to fill that time with practicing your new skill. Your goal is to free up 60-90 minutes a day to dedicate to practicing.

Give Yourself Time to Practice

You must get feedback on your progress. For instance, perhaps you are trying to learn Chinese. You should find a way to get fast feedback on your progress, so you’ll know if you’ve put a step wrong. After receiving this feedback, you can choose to approach your skill acquisition differently.  If you can, you should hire a coach to help guide you and give you feedback through the process. If you’re learning a new language, you can use a voice recorder to listen to yourself speaking. This will make it easier to hear mistakes in your own pronunciation or grammar.

Give Yourself Feedback

The author offers another example from his own life to highlight how he has used feedback. Kaufman received feedback when he was learning how to play the game Go. To do this, he downloaded a software called SmartGo, which gives the player feedback after every move. This software helped him identify his weak spots and made it simpler to progress.

Shortening your working periods helps mitigate the risk of working on difficult or tedious activities for extended periods. This is crucial as prolonged challenging work can be draining and often leads to inefficiency. When you first start learning, the hours of practice seem to drag on longer and longer. People tend to think they’ve actually spent more time working at the beginning of learning something new simply by how arduous learning the task is at the beginning.

Prioritize Quantity and Speed By Practicing in Short Bursts

Avoid this feeling from taking over by using a 20-minute time. The timer will let you know how long you’ve actually been practicing and, since you’ll know how long you’ve been working, you’ll be more motivated during that period. Your goal should be to do three to five of these 20-minute blocks of practice per day. If you do this, you’ll be shocked at how quickly you progress.

It’s better to recognize that you’re likely a beginner, and you shouldn’t expect yourself to be an expert from the start. So, focus on practicing quickly and often. By prioritizing quantity and speed, you’re less likely to get frustrated and subsequently demotivated during the initial stages of practice.

The First 20 Hours is a book about rapid skill acquisition: how to pick up new skills as fast as humanly possible.

Forget the 10,000 hour rule— what if it’s possible to learn the basics of any new skill in 20 hours or less? Take a moment to consider how many things you want to learn to do. What’s on your list? What’s holding you back from getting started? Are you worried about the time and effort it takes to acquire new skills—time you don’t have and effort you can’t spare? Research suggests it takes 10,000 hours to develop a new skill. In this nonstop world when will you ever find that much time and energy? To make matters worse, the early hours of prac­ticing something new are always the most frustrating. That’s why it’s difficult to learn how to speak a new language, play an instrument, hit a golf ball, or shoot great photos. It’s so much easier to watch TV or surf the web . . . In The First 20 Hours, Josh Kaufman offers a systematic approach to rapid skill acquisition— how to learn any new skill as quickly as possible. His method shows you how to deconstruct com­plex skills, maximize productive practice, and remove common learning barriers. By complet­ing just 20 hours of focused, deliberate practice you’ll go from knowing absolutely nothing to performing noticeably well. Kaufman personally field-tested the meth­ods in this book. You’ll have a front row seat as he develops a personal yoga practice, writes his own web-based computer programs, teaches himself to touch type on a nonstandard key­board, explores the oldest and most complex board game in history, picks up the ukulele, and learns how to windsurf. Here are a few of the sim­ple techniques he teaches: Define your target performance level: Fig­ure out what your desired level of skill looks like, what you’re trying to achieve, and what you’ll be able to do when you’re done. The more specific, the better. Deconstruct the skill: Most of the things we think of as skills are actually bundles of smaller subskills. If you break down the subcompo­nents, it’s easier to figure out which ones are most important and practice those first. Eliminate barriers to practice: Removing common distractions and unnecessary effort makes it much easier to sit down and focus on deliberate practice. Create fast feedback loops: Getting accu­rate, real-time information about how well you’re performing during practice makes it much easier to improve. Whether you want to paint a portrait, launch a start-up, fly an airplane, or juggle flaming chain­saws, The First 20 Hours will help you pick up the basics of any skill in record time . . . and have more fun along the way.

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Philosophy

Forget the 10,000 hour rule— what if it’s possible to learn the basics of any new skill in 20 hours or less?   Take a moment to consider how many things you want to learn to do. What’s on your list? What’s holding you back from getting started? Are you worried about the time and effort it takes to acquire new skills—time you don’t have and effort you can’t spare?   Research suggests it takes 10,000 hours to develop a new skill. In this nonstop world when will you ever find that much time and energy? To make matters worse, the early hours of prac­ticing something new are always the most frustrating. That’s why it’s difficult to learn how to speak a new language, play an instrument, hit a golf ball, or shoot great photos. It’s so much easier to watch TV or surf the web . . .   In The First 20 Hours, Josh Kaufman offers a systematic approach to rapid skill acquisition— how to learn any new skill as quickly as possible. His method shows you how to deconstruct com­plex skills, maximize productive practice, and remove common learning barriers. By complet­ing just 20 hours of focused, deliberate practice you’ll go from knowing absolutely nothing to performing noticeably well.   Kaufman personally field-tested the meth­ods in this book. You’ll have a front row seat as he develops a personal yoga practice, writes his own web-based computer programs, teaches himself to touch type on a nonstandard key­board, explores the oldest and most complex board game in history, picks up the ukulele, and learns how to windsurf. Here are a few of the sim­ple techniques he teaches:<ul><li>Define your target performance level: Fig­ure out what your desired level of skill looks like, what you’re trying to achieve, and what you’ll be able to do when you’re done. The more specific, the better.</li><li>Deconstruct the skill: Most of the things we think of as skills are actually bundles of smaller subskills. If you break down the subcompo­nents, it’s easier to figure out which ones are most important and practice those first.</li><li>Eliminate barriers to practice: Removing common distractions and unnecessary effort makes it much easier to sit down and focus on deliberate practice.</li><li>Create fast feedback loops: Getting accu­rate, real-time information about how well you’re performing during practice makes it much easier to improve.</li></ul>Whether you want to paint a portrait, launch a start-up, fly an airplane, or juggle flaming chain­saws, The First 20 Hours will help you pick up the basics of any skill in record time . . . and have more fun along the way.

Josh Kaufman is an independent business teacher, education activist, and author of The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business.Josh's unique, multidisciplinary approach to business education has helped hundreds of thousands of readers around the world master foundational business concepts on their own terms, and his work has been featured in BusinessWeek, Fortune, and Fast Company, as well as by influential websites like Lifehacker, HarvardBusiness.org, Cool Tools, and Seth Godin's Blog.

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