Learn Faster, Learn Smarter with Josh Kaufman

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Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

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🗓️ 16 November 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Learning is the single most important skill: if you know how to learn, you can get good at anything else. Today we're joined by Josh Kaufman, author of The Personal MBA, to explore the 20 hour rule, the problems with 10,000 hours, cognitive biases, and how you can learn anything more quickly. About our Guest: Josh is the author of three bestselling books: The Personal MBA, The First 20 Hours, and How to Fight a Hydra. The Personal MBA is a #1 international bestseller, and he's also responsible for one of my favorite TED talks which has more than 22 million views - The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything. Support the Podcast: We're on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link. Key Topics: 2:15: Why focus on business and learning? 5:30: 20 hours vs. 10,000 hours. 9:00: The power law of practice. 11:30: Precommitment, and making it through 20 hours. 15:00: The importance of deliberate practice. 17:00: Fast feedback loops. 19:45: Breaking big tasks into small tasks. 26:40: Responses to threat, and how our psychological state impacts learning. 32:30: Cognitive biases and social proof. 38:40: “Commitment and consistency” bias. 46:00: Recap. Sponsors: From Dr. Hanson: The Foundations of Well-Being brings together the lessons of a lifetime of practice into one year-long online program. Podcast listeners can use the code BEINGWELL25 at checkout for an additional 25% off! Please don't hesitate to apply for a scholarship if you're in need. Explore your creativity at Skillshare.com/BEINGWELL and get a free trial of their Premium Membership. Want to sleep better? Try the legendary Calm app! Visit calm.com/beingwell for 40% off a premium subscription. Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Connect with the show: Follow us on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and and if you've listened before, welcome back.
0:14.0	One of the major themes of this podcast is learning.
0:17.0	How can we get good at getting good at things?
0:20.0	Most of the time we've applied this to internal skills, like becoming more interpersonally skillful or more patient,
0:26.4	or hey, how about happier altogether, whatever that means.
0:30.3	You could argue that learning is the single most important skill that anyone ever develops,
0:34.0	because if we're good at that, we can get good at most anything else.
0:38.0	That's why I'm really looking forward to today's conversation with an expert on business, productivity, and efficient learning, Josh Kaufman.
0:46.0	Josh is the author of three best-selling books, The Personal MBA, The First 20 Hours, and How to Fight
0:51.4	a Hydra.
0:52.4	The Personal MBA is a number one
0:54.0	international bestseller that might legitimately teach you more than most
0:57.2	business schools. I think it's fair to say that it's been one of the most
1:00.0	highly regarded books in the industry since it was published and I've also found it really
1:03.7	personally useful. His related website personal MBA.com has been visited over 5 million times by
1:10.5	readers all over the world and he's also responsible for one of my favorite TED Talks, the first 20 hours, how to learn anything.
1:18.0	Before we get into today's conversation with Josh, just a quick reminder to subscribe to the podcast through the platform of your choice
1:24.8	and hopefully leave us a rating and a positive review. Also you can find us all over
1:29.6	social media we're on Instagram at Being Well Podcast, and Rick and I both have our own personal social
1:35.9	media profiles on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.
1:39.9	So on to Josh.
1:41.1	Josh, thanks so much for taking the time today. How are you doing?
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