This
is the book I have been reading for the last couple of days on fast skill
acquisition.
I
have been skeptic about the book title and how you can acquire a skill in
twenty hours or less.
However,
as I went through this book I found how the writer has defined himself as a
multi passionate person. In addition, unlike many people he found this is a
gift rather than an annoying virtue.
As
the author describes himself, as he loves learning many things and that he is a
passionate DIYer, he points out that he still finds this gift as a valuable way
to live.
The
only thing that stops him from making what he wants is that he only have
limited amount of time to learn all his to do list of learning.
Also,
as he had his first daughter he found how it's time demanding to be a father. Therefore,
he went through the entrepreneurship way and left his corporate job to start
his own business.
On
his way to overcome this major problem, he has developed many strategies that
helped him learn new skills faster. He has found the code of how to learn and
work smarter not harder.
By analyzing
the process of learning a new skill into small tasks and finding a way to
perform deliberate practice, he has improved the way he learned and practiced
those skills.
And
by making up his mind about each skill he needs to learn he knew exactly how
much he needs to learn and what is the threshold on which he can say that he
has efficiently acquired that new skill.
This
point is very important as you learn a new skill. If you look at it, when you
learn at school or college, you start a course on some title and continue learning
as you go through the specific curriculum to achieve a certain point of
knowledge that makes you able to pass exams at the end of the course.
But
what about skills that you need to learn on your own?
What
about skills that you have decided to begin learning either because you need to
learn them or because you just love to learn this new skill as a hobby.
When
you set your target level on this kind of knowledge you know when to stop and
how far can you go right from the beginning.
The
author started the book by stating his circumstances and portraying himself as
a multi passionate person.
Then
he went through the process of efficient skill acquisition.
Then
he started to mention his experience of learning six different skills that he
wanted to learn from scratch for helping his business, for improving his
lifestyle or for learning them as a new hobby he liked to learn.
The
book is so informative. It is of a light style that lets you go through it without
feeling bored even when mentioning technical details about each one of the
skills he wanted to learn.
For
me, I found some of those skills interesting that I found how I could start learning
them efficiently when I decide to learn them someday.
And
for other skills I'm not interested I went to read all his experiments with the
process to find more interesting details about his own experience.
I believe
that anyone who reads this book can feel the same for some of those skills as
he finds them interesting and for those that might not be very interesting he
can find the process so interesting to hear about.
In
general, the book is a great read and I recommend it for acquiring new skills.
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