15: Accelerated learning, peak performance and living the good life
The Psychology Podcast
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4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2015
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Three time bestselling author and human guinea pig Tim Ferriss discusses how to become top 5% in the world with a new skill in just 6-12 months. Scott and Tim debunk the 10,000 hour rule, discuss general principles for accelerated skill acquisition, consider what it means to live the good life and take a sneak peak at Tim’s new show The Tim Ferris Experiment.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the psychology podcast with Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman |
| 0:04.1 | where we give you insights into the mind brain behavior and creativity. Each |
| 0:08.4 | episode will feature a new guest who will stimulate your mind and give you a |
| 0:12.0 | greater understanding of yourself, others, and the world we live in. |
| 0:15.0 | Thanks for listening and enjoy the podcast. Next. Thanks so much for making time. I know you're extremely busy. |
| 0:37.0 | Oh my pleasure completely. We have a mutual friend Josh Wightskin who have known for quite a long time. |
| 0:44.4 | We've always talked about you. |
| 0:46.5 | I was just texting with him about 15 minutes ago. |
| 0:49.2 | Oh my gosh, well tell him you're talking to Scott Kaufman. |
| 0:52.4 | I will, I will, that's very's very funny. He's a great guy. Yeah so you probably get like lots of the same kinds of questions so I thought I'd you know try to take this to another higher level because in some ways we've had different we've had like |
| 1:04.1 | parallel path so I've studied the science of high performance the science of |
| 1:08.3 | greatness all the stuff my entire career and you've start you've been in the trenches right you've really been doing this firsthand |
| 1:16.2 | My I was the last research assistant of herb Simon as an undergraduate and |
| 1:20.9 | mentor I was mentored by Randy Palch and I noticed that both of these individuals are people that that you talk about in your own work. |
| 1:28.0 | Yeah. Yeah. |
| 1:30.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:31.0 | Yeah, yeah, I've the Randy Pauch just to make sure I'm getting it right. That's the last lecture. I mean he's obviously done more than that. So I have his, we can talk about that, but I have his book face out in my living room, so I see it every day. That is so cool. Yeah I took his |
| 1:44.3 | usability engineering usability design course at Carnegie Mellon. No kidding. |
| 1:48.9 | Yeah, very cool. Really great guy and I learned a lot from him. Yeah so so I've been studying, I've been trying to debunk this 10,000 hours |
| 1:56.8 | role for quite some time in kind of a similar way you have. |
| 2:01.0 | And I just want to point out how it's different from how others are trying to debunk it. |
| 2:04.0 | So other people in my field have been trying to debunk the 10,000 hour rule |
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