YAPClassic: Josh Kaufman Teaches How to Acquire Any Skill in Just 20 Hours

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing)

YAP Media Network

Education, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Business, Self-improvement

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Josh Kaufman went from having zero ukulele skills to being an intermediate ukulele player in just 20 hours. How did he do it? In this episode, Josh breaks down how to learn any new skill in just 20 hours, debunks certain myths about learning a new skill, and reveals his four steps for rapid skill acquisition. Josh Kaufman is a best-selling author, researcher, and speaker. Josh's TEDx talk, The First 20 Hours, is one of the top 25 most-viewed TED talks published to date, with over 22 million views on YouTube. His research has been featured by The New York Times, The BBC, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Fortune, Forbes, Time, BusinessWeek, Wired, Fast Company, Financial Times, HarvardBusiness.org, The World Economic Forum, Inside Higher Ed, Lifehacker, MarketWatch, The Independent, Bloomberg TV, PBS Next Avenue, CCTV, and CNN's Sanjay Gupta MD. In this episode, Hala and Josh discuss: - How Josh’s TEDx talk exploded in popularity - The 10,000 hours myth - What the first 20 hours of learning a new skill consist of - Emotional barriers to learning a new skill - Learning curves - The Power Law of Practice - The skills Josh has learned in under 20 hours - The 4 steps of rapid skill acquisition - The critical few - Josh’s third book, How To Fight A Hydra - And other topics… Josh Kaufman is a best-selling author, researcher, and speaker. Josh's research focuses on business, entrepreneurship, skill acquisition, productivity, creativity, applied psychology, and practical wisdom. His unique, multidisciplinary approach to business mastery and rapid skill acquisition has helped millions of readers around the world learn essential concepts and skills on their own terms. Josh has been featured as the #1 bestselling author in Business & Money, as ranked by Amazon.com, and his books have sold over a million copies worldwide. Josh's TEDx talk on The First 20 Hours is one of the top 25 most-viewed TED talks published to date, with over 22 million views on YouTube. Josh has been a featured speaker at The Aspen Ideas Festival, Stanford University, World Domination Summit, Pioneer Nation, Microconf, BaconBiz, Google, and IBM, and his website, JoshKaufman.net, was named one of the "Top 100 Websites for Entrepreneurs" by Forbes in 2013. Resources Mentioned: Part 1 of Josh's Interview: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/josh-kaufman-launching-a-business-or-side-hustle-e106/id1368888880?i=1000512998935 Josh’s TEDx Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MgBikgcWnY Josh’s Books: https://joshkaufman.net/books/ Josh’s Website: https://joshkaufman.net/ Josh’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/joshkaufman More About Young and Profiting Download Transcripts - youngandprofiting.com Get Sponsorship Deals - youngandprofiting.com/sponsorships Leave a Review - ratethispodcast.com/yap Watch Videos - youtube.com/c/YoungandProfiting Follow Hala Taha LinkedIn - linkedin.com/in/htaha/ Instagram - instagram.com/yapwithhala/ TikTok - tiktok.com/@yapwithhala Twitter - twitter.com/yapwithhala Learn more about YAP Media Agency Services - yapmedia.io/ Join Hala's LinkedIn Masterclass - yapmedia.io/course Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.9	What's up, ya fam? I've got another yaplastic for you today, and we're going to listen to part
0:46.2	two of my interview with Josh Kaufman, who's a well-known researcher speaker and best-selling
0:51.3	author of three books. Josh is really known for his TED Talk, the first 20 hours. It was one
0:56.9	of the most viral TED Talks of all time. This TED Talk is one of the top 25 most viewed TED Talks
1:02.5	with over 22 million views on YouTube. This interview that I had with Josh on Young and
1:08.4	Profiting was super interesting, and so many of you guys have reached out to me since this
1:13.1	episode was published over a year ago now. We're going to replay it in honor of the new year
1:18.0	because it talks about something so important, and that's gaining new skills. We talk about
1:23.9	skill stacking all the time on ya, but so many people feel like they don't have enough time to
1:28.0	learn a new skill. It's a big excuse that they tell themselves. This episode proves them wrong,
1:32.9	and I thought, what better timing than in honor of the new year to put this out, because so many of
1:37.3	you guys probably have learning a new skill as one of the top resolutions on your list for 2023.
1:43.1	So in this episode, Josh breaks down how to learn a new skill in just 20 hours. He's learned the
1:48.1	basics of several skills this way from computer coding to playing the ukulele. In this episode,
1:53.8	we discussed the emotional obstacles we need to overcome, as well as the myths involved with
1:58.7	learning new skill, and we'll gain insight on Josh's four steps of rapid skill acquisition.
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