You just need the courage to be bad for a little while, a timer to track your progress, and the confidence that by the end of the first 20 hours, you will be good enough to have fun.
So, what skill have you been putting off? The guitar in the corner? The language app on your phone? The code academy tab open in your browser? the first 20 hours book
We want to play a few songs on guitar without sounding like a dying cat. We want to hold a basic conversation in Spanish. We want to cook a decent stir-fry or hit a tennis ball over the net. You just need the courage to be bad
That’s where Josh Kaufman’s brilliant book, , comes in. And his message is incredibly liberating: You can go from knowing nothing to being surprisingly good at almost any new skill in just 20 hours of focused practice. The language app on your phone
Coined by Malcolm Gladwell and based on the research of Anders Ericsson, that number refers to reaching the level of a world-class expert—think Olympic gymnast or concert violinist. But here’s the problem: most of us don’t want to be world-class. We just want to be competent .
