The First 20 Hours: How To Learn Anything...Fast (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
The book follows a recent pattern of writing by the newly risen so called "Learning Experts". The whole core of the book can just be compressed in a well written 1000 words essay, and everything else seems like an effort to make it a book and fill more pages. Only the 40 pages of the 250 actually worth reading if you want the basic principles of learning new skills.Even the basic principles for learning mentioned here are been out there for a long while and nothing new. There had been plenty of articles and essays on matters such as Deliberate Practice and so. However the main selling point of the book seems to be the '20 Hours to learn anything' catch phrase as oppose to Malcolm Galdwell's '10,000 Hours for skill mastery' concept. And so the trade offs are bigger. Personally I prefer being great at few skills than being bad to average in number of skills. Nevertheless, its a good read. The first three chapters of this self-help book give some great tips to learning anything you want in 20 hours. You may not be an expert, but you should be able to have fun with that new skill.However, the remaining 6 chapters are about how the author learned to play Go, windsurf, play the ukulele, learn computer programming, do yoga, and learn a keyboard that is not QWERTY.These chapters were meant to show how to apply the tips to learning in a practical way. Unfortunately, there was WAY too much detail in these chapters about how to learn those things and I ended up just skimming it.
What do You think about The First 20 Hours: How To Learn Anything...Fast (2013)?
كتاب مميز في طرحه وإقناعك على تبسيط تعلم المهارات
—tyana
To much focus on the particular skills rather than the method.
—killa_piglet89
