Accelerated Learning: Get Good at Anything in 20 Hours
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2017
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
What if you could get really good at almost anything in only 20 hours?
Sounds like an impossible promise, but it's not. Accelerated learning hacker and author of The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything... Fast!, Josh Kaufman, says anyone can do it.
In today's special expanded Riff, Josh busts myths about what it takes to learn new things quickly. He then reveals a 5-step protocol to get good at anything in only 20 hours. Along the way you'll accelerate your learning by deconstructing complex skills, learning what to practice and when (and what to ignore), and figure out how to remove barriers to deliberate practice.
In a world where perpetual learning is the norm, the ability to rapidly learn new things is mission-critical. This will help get you started!
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| 0:00.0 | So what if you could get really, really good at almost anything in 20 hours from playing |
| 0:09.6 | an instrument to learning a language to whatever it may be? |
| 0:13.3 | Well, that's the hypothesis of Josh Kaufman and Josh in fact dove deep into the research |
| 0:18.6 | and blew up a whole bunch of ideas around learning and that ended up becoming a process that |
| 0:24.2 | he actually shares in a book called The First 20 Hours and I wanted to sit down and learn |
| 0:29.4 | that process from Josh. So this is a bit of a different riff. It's actually a conversational riff |
| 0:34.5 | but it's focused on one very specific topic as our riffs generally are which is accelerated learning |
| 0:40.4 | and it's diving into the question, can you really become really good at almost anything in 20 hours |
| 0:47.2 | and Josh says yes you can if you understand the process and you understand precisely what to |
| 0:54.4 | focus on and what to completely ignore and by the way the things to completely ignore are very |
| 1:00.8 | often the very things that we are taught to focus on. So we're really excited to share this conversation |
| 1:06.8 | with you about accelerated learning and how to really become good at stuff in a mere 20 hours. |
| 1:14.1 | Oh one more quick note also you'll notice that the audio the sound of the audio is a bit different |
| 1:19.5 | in the actual conversation. This was actually recorded with Josh on the occasion in Colorado so |
| 1:25.5 | there's a little bit more space in the audio so that's just want to let you know why the sound is |
| 1:31.8 | a bit different than our normal in studio. I'm Jonathan Fields and this is Good Left Project. |
| 1:40.4 | Good Left Project is supported by FreshBooks Cloud Accounting Software that helps you tackle |
| 1:45.6 | your paperwork faster so you can spend more time building your business and less time |
| 1:50.5 | chasing all the other stuff. For your 30-day trial go to FreshBooks.com slash Good Life |
| 1:56.8 | and be sure to enter Good Life Project in the how did you hear about us section onto our show. |
| 2:05.9 | So my guest today is Josh Kaufman and this is a special episode. One of the things that we've |
| 2:10.1 | discovered through a lot of our viewers is that the process of trying to live a good life, a better |
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