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The first 20 hours -- how to learn anything | Josh Kaufman | TEDxCSU
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Transcriber: Gustavo Rocha Reviewer: Marssi Draw
Hi everyone.
Two year ago, my life changed forever.
My wife Kelsey and I
welcomed our daughter Lela into the world.
Now, becoming a parent is an amazing experience.
Your whole world changes over night.
And all of your priorities change immediately.
So fast that it makes it really difficult to process sometimes.
Now, you also have to learn a tremendous amount about being a parent
like, for example, how to dress your child.
(Laughter)
This was new to me.
This is an actual outfit, I thought this was a good idea.
And even Lela knows that it's not a good idea. (Laughter)
So there is so much to learn and so much craziness all at once.
And to add to the craziness, Kelsey and I both work from home,
we're entrepreneurs, we run our own businesses.
So, Kelsey develops courses online for yoga teachers.
I'm an author.
And so, I'm working from home, Kelsey's working from home.
We have an infant and we're trying to make sure
that everything gets done that needs done.
And life is really, really busy.
And a couple of weeks into this amazing experience,
when the sleep deprivation really kicked in,
like around week eight,
I had this thought, and it was the same thought
that parents across the ages, internationally,
everybody has had this thought, which is:
I am never going to have free time ever again.
(Laughter)
Somebody said it's true.
It's not exactly true,
but it feels really, really true in that moment.
And this was really disconcerning to me,
because one of the things that I enjoy
more than anything else is learning new things.
Getting curious about something and diving in
and fiddling around and learning through trial and error.
And eventually becoming pretty good at something.
And without this free time,
I didn't know how I was ever going to do that ever again.
And so, I'm a big geek,
I want to keep learning things, I want to keep growing.
And so what I've decided to do was,
go to the library, and go to the bookstore,
and look at what research says about
how we learn and how we learn quickly.
And I read a bunch of books, I read a bunch of websites.
And tried to answer this question,
how long does it take to acquire a new skill?
You know what I found?
10,000 hours!
Anybody ever heard this?
It takes 10,000 hours. If you want to learn something new,
if you want to be good at it,
it's going to take 10,000 hours to get there.
And I read this in book after book, in website after website.
And my mental experience of reading all of this stuff was like:
No!!
I don't have time! I don't have 10,000 hours.
I am never going to be able to learn anything new.
Ever again. (Laughter)
But that's not true.
So, 10,000 hours, just to give you a rough order of magnitude,
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