Relationship is the fundamental truth of this world of appearance.

Relationship is what makes <a href="https://www.themarginalian.org/2017/12/08/the-songs-of-trees-david-haskell/">a forest a forest</a> and <a href="https://www.themarginalian.org/2017/02/28/undersea-rachel-carson/">an ocean an ocean</a>. To meet the world on its own terms and respect the reality of another as an expression of that world as fundamental and inalienable as your own reality is an art immensely rewarding yet immensely difficult.How to master the orientation of heart, mind, and spirit essential for the art of sincere and honorable relationship is what philosopher Martin Buber explores in his 1923 classic <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0743201337/braipick-20">I and Thou</a> — the foundation of Buber’s influential existentialist philosophy of dialogue.

Philosophy of dialogue: Relationship

<a href="https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/01/06/alan-watts-reality/">Life and Reality are not things you can have for yourself unless you accord them to all others</a>.

To the man the world is twofold, in accordance with his twofold attitude. The attitude of man is twofold, in accordance with the twofold nature of the primary words which he speaks. The primary words are not isolated words, but combined words. The one primary word is the combination I–Thou. The other primary word is the combination I–It; wherein, without a change in the primary word, one of the words He and She can replace It. Hence the I of man is also twofold. For the I of the primary word I–Thou is a different I from that of the primary word I–It.

I–It establishes the world of experience and sensation.I–Thou establishes the world of relationship, which asks of each person a participatory intimacy. Thou addresses another not as an object but as a presence.

I - Thou. I - It.

“Real isn’t how you are made… It’s a thing that happens to you.”

To address another as Thou, Buber suggests, requires a certain self-surrender that springs from inhabiting one’s own presence while at the same time stepping outside one’s self. Only then does the other cease to be a means to one’s own ends and becomes real. The primary word I–Thou can be spoken only with the whole being. Concentration and fusion into the whole being can never take place through my agency, nor can it ever take place without me. I become through my relation to the Thou; as I become I, I say Thou.

All real living is meeting

Another perspective to look into relationship:  the fundamental truth of this world of appearance. 

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I and Thou: Philosopher Martin Buber on the Art of Relationship and What Makes Us Real to One Another

<ul><li>Go on bravely.</li><li>Do not expect success in a day or a year. </li><li>Always hold on to the highest.</li><li>Be steady.</li><li>Avoid jealousy and selfishness.</li><li>Be obedient and eternally faithful to the cause of truth, humanity, and your country, and you will move the world.</li></ul>

Be brave, be steady, be patient.

<ul><li>Be not afraid.</li><li>Think not how many times you fail. Never mind.</li><li>Time is infinite.</li><li>Go forward; assert yourself again and again, and light must come.</li></ul>

Manage energy, not time.

Every successful man must have behind him somewhere tremendous integrity, tremendous sincerity, and that is the cause of his signal success in life.

<ul><li>The success of your undertakings depends wholly upon your mutual love.</li><li>There is no good in store so long as malice and jealousy and egotism will prevail... Know that talking ill of others in private is a sin. You must wholly avoid it.</li></ul>

Duty with love is the formula for  success.

Keep on steadily. So far we have done wonderful things. Onward, brave souls, we will gain!

Infinite patience, infinite purity, and infinite perseverance are the secret of success in a good cause.

<ul><li>Take courage and work on.</li><li>Patience and steady work - this is the only way.</li><li>Go on; remember - patience and purity and courage and steady work... So long as you are pure, and true to your principles, you will never fail.</li></ul>

Be patient, be steady, be brave.

Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later.

Obedience, readiness, and love for the cause - if you have these three, nothing can hold you back.

A great tree is to be taken refuge in, when it has both fruits and shade. If, however, we do not get the fruit, who prevents our enjoyment of the shade? So ought, great attempts to be made, is the moral.

No impatient one can ever succeed.

<ul><li>This world is not for cowards.</li><li>Do not try to fly.</li><li>Look not for success or failure.</li><li>Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on.</li><li>Know that the mind which is born to succeed joins itself to a determined will and perseveres.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Follow the truth wherever it may lead you... Do not be cowardly and hypocritical.</li><li>Perish in the struggle to be holy; a thousand times welcome death.</li><li>Be not disheartened.</li><li>When good nectar is unattainable, it is no reason why we should eat poison.</li></ul>

My idea and all my life with it - and to God for help; to none else! This is the only secret of success.

Be brave, be steady, be patient to be successful.

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Success by Vivekananda

The student did not want to face fear, but it was nonetheless time to do so. He approached, and asked permission to combat Fear, who garnered the student’s respect with its size & might.

The Battle

Fear, in acknowledgement of the student’s respectfulness & humility, answered him outright, “My weapons are that I talk fast & get close to your face. Then you get unnerved, and do whatever I say.”

Fear’s Weapons  

Fear continued: “You can listen to me, you can have respect for me, & you can even be convinced by me— but if you do not do what I say, I have no power.” In that way, the student learned how to overcome Fear.

Defeating Fear 

The Buddhist story of how one student faced & learned to overcome Fear.

LIFE WITHOUT FEAR - a buddhist story about fear is another Dare to do. Motivation story video about how wonderful life can be if we only understand and accept fear as what it is: a factor for growth for human development Please let me know in the comments below what fear is for you and as ylaways: STAAAY BLESSED! Support me : https://paypal.me/daretodomotivation Listen to your heart...be happy...don't give up and always believe! ===================================================================================================================== Hi everybody i write and speak most of the speeches myself, so if you need some material or want to do some sort of collaboration, feel free to contact me : kori.sarian@hotmail.com Speaker: Dare to do.MOTIVATION https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5VP2Yr-U7PHyDKHQQfkH9w?disable_polymer=true ===================================================================================================================== Music Search: Francesco D'Andrea - With some Malice REW - Fig Wasp ====================================================================================================================== *FAIR-USE COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER* Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, commenting, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. 1)This video has no negative impact on the original works (It would actually be positive for them) 2)This video is also for teaching purposes. 3)It is not transformative in nature. 4)I only used bits and pieces of videos to get the point across where necessary. DARE to do. MOTIVATION does not own the rights to these video clips. They have, in accordance with fair use, been repurposed with the intent of educating and inspiring others. However, if any content owners would like their images removed, please contact us by email at KORI.SARIAN@HOTMAIL.COM

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LIFE WITHOUT FEAR - a buddhist story about fear
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Our culture has many different perspectives about what “beauty” entails. Beauty isn’t all about just nice, lovely-looking things or people. It is more about an emerging fullness, a greater sense of grace and elegance, a deeper sense of depth, and a kind of homecoming for the enriched memory of your unfolding life.This could include anything from the sunset on your way home to the budding magnolia in your driveway. It may also show up in the piano piece your child is learning for the first time or in your newborn’s smile.

What Is "Beauty?"

<ul><li>In our often hurried lives, it's easy to pass right by objects and experiences of beauty. Taking the time to appreciate and find beauty can actually promote our health, relationships, and well-being in several ways.</li><li>Research shows that when we engage in expressive outlets such as music, dance, poetry, and art, we can experience improved physical and mental wellbeing.</li></ul>

Beauty’s Benefits

<ul><li>From the perspective of interpersonal neurobiology, the mind is able to flourish when its' domains are differentiated and linked, a process described as integration</li><li>Beauty encourages this integration process, encouraging present moment awareness, attunement, and emotional sensing between other people and objects</li><li>Engaging in expressive, artistic, aesthetic experiences supports our mind's ability to flourish</li><li>This is amplified when we can engage in such acts in the presence of a larger community and relationships with others.</li></ul>

Beauty and Interpersonal Neurobiology

Our culture has many different perspectives about what “beauty” entails.

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<ul><li>Many emotionally neglectful families aren’t able to teach their children how to soothe themselves</li><li>Self-soothing can get you through some of the most challenging days or moments of your life by helping you manage feelings of hurt, anger, sadness, or grief.</li><li>It can make you more resilient as a person.</li></ul>

Most people don’t give much thought to self-soothing

Fortunately, self-soothing is not complex or difficult to learn. In fact, for most people, it’s mostly a process of self-discovery, trying different ideas, and observing the outcome. As you go through the process of learning self-soothing, an added benefit is getting to know yourself better on an emotional level.Since every human being is unique, the things that will be soothing to you will be specific to you.

Self-soothing is a learnable skill

<ol><li>Make a list of possible activities that you think might be soothing for you. You will have this initial group of possible strategies ready to try when you need them.</li><li>Watch for strong feelings of anger, hurt, sadness, or any other feeling that is too sharp or painful to manage. These are your chances to try out your list.</li><li>Try different strategies at different times, since different strategies may work in different situations and with different feelings. Try one strategy and if it doesn’t work, try another.</li><li>If one of your strategies isn't good, mark it off. Add new ones as they occur to you.</li></ol>

Steps to learn self-soothing

<ul><li>Self-talk: Talk to yourself in your own head about what you’re feeling or its cause</li><li>Cry: Crying helps you maintain biological homeostasis and regulates your heart rate when you are upset</li><li>Exercise: Cook something creative or healthy</li><li>Play with a child</li><li>Call a friend</li><li>Sit quietly and look out the window</li><li>Meditate.</li></ul>

Examples of self-soothing

Being able to tolerate and soothe a painful feeling makes you more resilient.

How to Learn a Valuable Lifetime Skill: Self-Soothing

Definition: The ability to understand, appreciate, and interact with people from cultures or belief systems different from one’s own.A key component of cultural competence is learning to interact with people who have different communication styles (verbal, nonverbal, written, or visual), approaches to problem-solving, and even methods of asking for help.

Cultural competence 

Definition: A skill that helps you create a more supportive relationship with yourself, your thoughts and feelings, and other people.Your emotional fitness directly impacts your productivity, creativity, and ability to make decisions and help others. One way you can strengthen your emotional fitness is to simply check in with yourself more often. Every morning, ask: “How am I feeling right now?” Based on your answer, determine how to best accommodate your needs that day.

Emotional fitness 

Definition: Looking beyond what is evident on the surface and finding a hidden structure — one that reveals both how an object or idea was designed and how it can be re-created.Reverse engineering can facilitate skill acquisition in any field and is especially useful for knowledge workers whose success depends on their ability to learn quickly and adapt to rapidly evolving industries.

Reverse engineering

Definition: When we underestimate the time and obstacles in completing a task, even when it contradicts our past experience.The planning fallacy starts with wishful thinking. Minor (or even major) delays aren’t factored in, and we unwittingly place ourselves in last-minute or worse, past-deadline scenarios.

Planning fallacy

Definition: A situation in which a younger or early career professional mentors a senior colleague.Reverse mentoring helps everyone become more engaged at work. Junior employees are able to access newer social networks, and senior employees gain fresh perspectives or expand their knowledge around new trends.

Reverse mentoring

… and help you bring your best self to work.

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Creative self-efficacy is the internal belief that you have the ability to complete creative tasks effectively. If you can learn to leave behind the fixed mindset of “I am not a creative person”, you will be able to make more room for personal growth, exploration, and innovation.Creative self-efficacy is the belief one has the ability to produce creative outcomes. The greater the belief in your own creativity, the more successful you will be in pursuing your creative goals.

Creative self-efficacy 

<ul><li>Develop a creative network. By building a strong professional network of people who are driven to produce excellent creative work, you can start imitating part of their creative self-efficacy to increase your own. </li><li>Get creative support. Identify people whose creative efforts are often successful, and ask whether you can work under their guidance. </li><li>Cultivate creative autonomy. The professional freedom to expand on your basic duties and responsibilities can increase your creative self-efficacy. As a bonus, perceived autonomy also has a positive impact on our mood. </li></ul>

How to cultivate creative self-efficacy

Creative self-efficacy is the internal belief that you have the ability to complete creative tasks effectively. If you can learn to leave behind the fixed mindset of “I am not a creative person”, you will be able to make more room for personal growth, exploration, and innovation.

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<ol><li>Classical conditioning</li><li>Operant conditioning </li><li>Shaping</li></ol>

 3 conditioning techniques designers use to influence behavior

Classical conditioning is a subconscious association technique that pairs a neutral stimulus with a desirable stimulus to create an associated trigger. After many successive pairings throughout time, the neutral stimulus can elicit a positive response without the desirable stimulus present.Example:A user’s mobile device vibrates each time they order takeout from a food delivery app, eventually leading to an increase in orders.

Classical Conditioning

Operant conditioning is an associative learning process that guides an individual to desired behavior through the use of positive and negative reinforcement. Positive reinforcement is the addition of something that rewards or punishes an action. Negative reinforcement is the subtraction of something that rewards or punishes an action.Example:A social media app wants users to post more content.

Operant conditioning

Shaping is the reinforcement of different and successive approximations towards a targeted behavior. Employ a shaping strategy when a targeted behavior is complex or a difficult sell.Example:A VR editing app wants users to buy pre-built components.

Shaping

3 conditioning techniques designers use to influence behavior. These methods are widespread and employed in almost every successful app

This article covers 3 conditioning techniques designers use to influence behavior. These methods are widespread and employed in almost every successful app. Use with caution.

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"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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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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The First 20 Hours

"The Hunger Games" has unquestionably grabbed the globe by storm, first via the novels and later through the movie. The fact that this series was aimed towards a younger audience hasn't stopped individuals of all ages, both men and women, from plunging straight into the plot. They feel a personal connection to the characters.

The Important Life Lessons We Learned From 'The Hunger Games'

She is well aware that her sister will not survive the Hunger Games. She must volunteer as a tribute to preserve her life as her older sister. In life, you must know when to hold your ground and when to yield. All partnerships center around sacrifice. This principle holds true regardless of whether they are personal friendships, familial ties, or intimate partnerships. You need to show others how important they are to you, and sacrificing on your goals and wishes demonstrates how much you respect them.

Sacrifice is the bedrock of adulthood.

At the end of the day, you are totally responsible for your own survival. You must understand what you need in order to struggle and thrive. What works for one person may not (and most likely will not) work for you. It is never a certainty to journey through life with a partner, no matter how great and reassuring it seems. The only guarantees in life are you and the information you've gathered through time.

Your existence will be ensured through self-sufficiency.

For some reason, many believe that seeking assistance is a show of weakness. This can be traced back to cultural perfectionist expectations. The assumption that you should be able to subsist solely on your own efforts is both unrealistic and useless. Having this perspective would only keep you from achieving your objectives. Examine the facts of your situation: Do you truly require assistance? Is your ego the only thing keeping you from asking for help? No matter how self-conscious you are about asking for help, it is occasionally required.

There’s nothing wrong with getting a little bit of help.

This lesson will help you guide to the right path of your path just like Katniss and Peeta did

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