Learning doesn’t need to be hard and it shouldn’t take us forever to learn these things. What if I told you, you don’t need to spend 6 months or even a year grinding to try and learn something new. Your life could be easier saved by just giving yourself 20 hours of focused effort.
Since a lot of you will be aware about the 10,000 hour rule, it is better to address the problem with it.
There is a famous rule that you may have heard a lot whenever someone is talking about learning anything, it’s called the 10,000 hours rule. The rule is famously mentioned by author Malcolm Gladwell in his book, Outliers: The Story of Success.
This means considering a person spends at least 5 hours every day to learn anything new, it would take a person 10 years!! to become a master of his / her craft. But it’s not a MUST to be an expert when you prepare to learn something new.
Key points behind the original 10,000 hours rule:
- It takes 10,000 hours to get at the top of an ultra-competitive field in a very narrow subject.
- All the ultra-competitive folks in ultra-high-performing fields spend more time in deliberate practice.
- The saying it takes 10,000 hours to learn something new is a hoax.
- It takes 10,000 hours for Expert-level performance.
A new rule to learn anything, the 20 Hours rule:
- Deconstruct the skill — Break a skill into smaller and smaller doable tasks.
- Learn enough to self-correct — Get 3 to 5 resources about what you want to learn. Learn just enough so that you can self-correct/ self-audit.
- Remove practice barriers — eg. Distractions, television, internet, etc. All the things that get in the way off you sitting down and doing the work.
- Practice for at least 20 hours — Pre-commit to practice whatever it is, you want to learn for at least 20 hours.
By following the above 4 steps, you can be sure to learn anything through deliberate practice and effort. Now that you have learned everything about the 20-hour rule, you can start using it to learn anything.
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