Do you ever ask yourself or someone or searching on the internet how long it takes to learn something new?
Josh Kaufman, the speaker said that he want to keep learning and growing, and then he decided go to bookstore and library and look at what research says about how people learn and how people learn quickly. And he found the answer, that is the 10,000 hour rule. So he reads about that in the books or websites and then he found his mental experience was like "I don't have time, I'm never going to be able to learn anything new ever again".
10,000 hours is a full-time job for 5 years. The 10,000 hour rule came out of studies of expert-level performance. That rule is written in a book in 2007 called "Outliers: The Story of Success" by Malcolm Gladwell and that rule was a central piece of that book. Practice a lot, practice well, and you will do extremely well, you will reach the top of your field. We can conclude that it takes 10,000 hours to get at the top of an ultra competitive field in a very narrow subject.
Then, since Outliers came out reached the top of best seller lists, all of a sudden the 10,000 hour rule was everywhere and a society-wide game of telephone started to be played. The message, it takes 10,000 hours to get at the top of an ultra competitive field, became it takes 10,000 to become an expert at something, which became it takes 10,000 hours to become good at something, which became it takes 10,000 hours to learn something. The last statement 'it takes 10,000 hours to learn something' it's not true.
Josh did his research to answer the question 'How long does it take from starting something and being grossly incompetent and knowing it to being reasonably good?' And the answer is 20 hours. 20 hours is about 45 minutes a day for about a month.
He also shared about 4 simple steps to rapid skill acquisition:
1. Deconstruct the skill
First, we should decided what we want, look into the skill and break it down into smaller pieces. Most of the things that we think of as skills are actually big bundles of skill that require all sorts of different things. The more we can break apart the skill, the more we able to decide what are the parts of this skill that would actually 'help me get to what I want' and then we can practice those first. And, if we practice the most important things first, we'll be able to improve our performance in the least amount of time possible.
2. Learn enough to self-correct
The second, we should get 3-5 resources about what it is we're trying to learn. It could be book, video, courses or anything. But, don't use those as a way to procrastinate on practice. The example of the procrastination is 'I get 20 books about the topic, then I'm gonna start learning how to program a computer when I complete these 20 books". The learning becomes a way of getting better at noticing when we're making a mistake and then doing something a little different.
3. Remove practice barriers
Remove practice barriers means the distractions, tv, internet. The more we're able to use just a little bit of willpower to remove the distractions that are keeping us from practicing, the more likely we're to actually sit down and practice.
4. Practice at least 20 hours
Most skill have a frustration barrier, the grossly-incompetent-and-knowing-it part, that's really frustrating because we don't like to feel stupid. And feeling stupid is a barrier to us actually sitting down and doing the work. By pre-committing to practicing whatever it is that we want to do for at least 20 hours, we'll be able to overcome that initial frustration barrier and stick with the practice long enough to actually reap the rewards.
The last, he said the major barrier to skill acquisition isn't intellectual, it's not the process of we learning a bunch of little tips or tricks or things. The major barrier is emotional, we're scared, feeling stupid doesn't feel good, in the beginning of learning anything new. But, just try to put 20 hours into anything.
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