The first 20 hours -- how to learn anything | Josh Kaufman | TEDxCSU
The future teachers had practiced four thousand hours in their lifetime. The good performers, eight thousand hours. And those who were categorized as stars? Every single one of them had practiced at least ten thousand hours. And here’s the compelling part: There wasn’t a single violinist who had practiced ten thousand hours who wasn’t a star. In ot
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“When you first start to study a field, it seems like you have to memorize a zillion things. You don’t. What you need is to identify the core principles – generally three to twelve of them – that govern the field. The million things you thought you had to memorize are simply various combinations of the core principles.”
— John T. Reed in Succee
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