How To Speed Learn in 5 Simple Steps | Josh Kaufman - video Dailymotion

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Josh Kaufman helps you optimize your learning process.

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00:00 How do we learn?

00:01 How do we learn things quickly?

00:02 How do we learn things in a way that allows us to go

00:05 from knowing absolutely nothing about a skill

00:09 to being really good in a very short period of time?

00:13 There's one idea that keeps coming up

00:16 over and over and over again, the 10,000 hour rule.

00:20 It takes 10,000 hours to learn something.

00:24 It's not true, and thank goodness it's not true.

00:27 The order of magnitude of going from knowing

00:29 absolutely nothing to being really good

00:32 is about 20 hours, not 10,000.

00:36 And the method, very broadly, has five steps,

00:39 and they're very simple.

00:40 The first is decide exactly what you want.

00:43 What do you want to be able to do?

00:45 What is it going to look like when you're done?

00:47 What are you going to be able to look at yourself

00:49 and say, "I did this thing that I've always wanted to do."

00:52 What does it look like?

00:53 The more clearly and completely you're able to define

00:56 exactly what you want to be able to do,

00:59 the easier it will be for you to find ways

01:02 to accomplish that desired end result

01:06 as quickly and efficiently as possible.

01:08 The second thing that you do

01:11 is what I call deconstructing the skill.

01:13 So most of the things that we think of as skills

01:18 aren't really just one skill.

01:20 They're bundles of smaller sub-skills

01:23 that we use in combination with each other.

01:26 For example, driving off the T and chipping on the green

01:30 have very little to do in common with each other.

01:33 Very few skills overlap there,

01:35 but they're both important

01:37 if you want to be able to play golf well.

01:39 So instead of trying to learn the global skill,

01:41 you break it apart into these smaller parts

01:43 and you practice the most important sub-skills,

01:46 things that you're going to use most, first.

01:49 Now, the third part is researching.

01:52 Researching just enough

01:54 that you're able to identify the most important sub-skills,

01:59 but also understanding and being able to self-correct

02:04 as you're practicing.

02:05 Go out and find three to five books, courses,

02:09 DVDs, trainers, people or resources

02:12 that can help you do that initial deconstruction.

02:15 Now, the trick is don't allow that research

02:19 to become a form of procrastination.

02:22 The best approach is to pick three, four, five resources.

02:27 You don't go through them completely.

02:29 You skim them.

02:30 Identify the ideas that come up

02:31 over and over and over again.

02:34 So those are the things that you should know

02:36 so you can self-correct as you practice.

02:38 And those are the sub-skills

02:39 that you should probably practice first.

02:41 The fourth part is removing barriers to practice,

02:46 making it easy to sit down

02:50 and actually do the thing you want to get better at.

02:52 So in our lives, we have thousands of distractions.

02:58 During the practice process, turn off the TV,

03:02 block the internet, close the door, turn off your cell phone,

03:07 remove the distractions that can take your focus away

03:12 from whatever this thing that you're trying to practice is,

03:15 and make sure that that time that you have set aside

03:18 to practice in a way that was going to make you better

03:21 is as undivided and focused as possible.

03:25 And fifth, and very importantly,

03:28 pre-commit to at least 20 hours

03:31 of focused, deliberate practice before you begin.

03:35 And that's really it.

03:38 There's no magic to it.

03:39 It's just focused, strategic effort

03:42 invested in something you care about

03:45 and something that is going to be rewarding to yourself.

03:48 Learning, the process of learning is not difficult.

03:53 What we're doing in this process

03:54 is really just removing all of the frustrations,

03:58 all of the barriers, all of the things that get in the way

04:01 of us sitting down and doing the work.

04:04 Even in the busiest schedules,

04:05 if you can clear a half an hour to 45 minutes a day

04:09 to sit down and finally learn

04:11 that thing that you've always wanted to learn,

04:13 you will be astounded, absolutely astounded

04:17 at how good you've become in a very short period of time.

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