The first 20 hours : how to learn anything ... fast / Josh Kaufman.
By: Kaufman, Josh [author.]
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BookPublisher: London : Portfolio/Penguin, 2013Description: xi, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780670921911.Other title: First twenty hours.Subject(s): Expertise | Learning, Psychology ofDDC classification: 153.15 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 153.15 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00228101 |
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What would you like to learn? How to paint a great portrait, launch a business, play piano . . . or even fly an aeroplane?
The only thing holding you back is the time and effort it will take. But there is a way to go from knowing absolutely nothing to performing well, with just 20 hours of practice.
Josh Kaufman, author of the international bestseller The Personal MBA , has developed a brilliantly simple approach to help you learn anything. He shows you how to deconstruct complex skills, make the most of your time, and clear away obstacles in your path.
The First 20 Hours helps you pck up any skill in record time . . . and have much more fun along the way.
'A blockbuster in the making. After reading this book, you'll be ready to take on any number of skills and make progress on that big project you've been putting off for years.' Chris Guillebeau, author of The $100 Startup
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A portrait of the author as a learning junkie -- Ten principles of rapid skill acquisition -- Ten principles of effective learning -- Yoga -- Programming -- Touch typing -- Go -- Ukulele -- Windsurfing.
Forget the 10,000 hour rule. What if it is 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 is on your list? What is holding you back from getting started? Are you worried about the time and effort it takes to acquire new skills, time you do not have and effort you cannot 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? In this book the author offers a systematic approach to rapid skill acquisition: how to learn any new skill as quickly as possible by showing how to deconstruct complex skills, maximize productive practice, and remove common learning barriers.
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Josh Kaufman is an independent business professor, education activist, and author of the Personal MBA- Master the Art of Business .Josh Kaufman's unique, multidisciplinary approach to business education has helped hundreds of thousands of readers around the world master the essentials of business on their own terms, and his work has been featured in BusinessWeek and FastCompany , as well as by influential websites like Lifehacker, Cool Tools, HarvardBusiness.org, and Seth Godin's Blog.