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Ever feel like you're standing at the bottom of a mountain
When you want to learn something new
Yes
Exciting sure
But kind of daunting at the same time
Absolutely i mean right
Where do you even start
And who has that kind of time
That's where today's deep dive comes in okay
We're to tackle this feeling head on right
Explore how to
How to accelerate you're learning and we go using some insets from productivity expert josh kfffman and his book
The first twenty hours
So i love that park
Yeah
So first things first get a debunk this whole ten thousand hour myth you probably heard it
Oh Yes
It comes from research by psychologist k antror erickson
But the thing is
While it might be true for like reaching uh elite world class levels of expertise in supercompetitive field
Yeah think olympic athletes or just grandmasters right right
It's not really the benchmark
Most of his need right for just like everyday skills
Yeah
I mean take someone like tiger woods right
He's dedicated his life to golf reached a level of mastery that you could ever match
But for most of us
You know the goal isn't to go pro right
You know maybe you just want to honor learn how to play a few songs on the guitar pick up some conversational spanish for in next trip yeah
Or finally build that website
You've been
You've been dreaming of kffman man has a really interesting take on this okay
He thinks that you can become surprisingly comfident okay in almost any skill right in a fraction of that ten thousand hour time frame nice
And you
You breaks it down into a five stememethowhich
Which what we're diving into today awesome so step one is defining your target performance level okay
What does good actually look like for you so love how in the video
Kaufmen uses the example of learning to code
Instead of trying to be like a programming with overnight he focused on building one specific program
Right this kind of forced him to learn like the essential sub skills for that goal without getting lost in the vast world of coding
It's about being leaser focused absolutely so imagine you decide you want to learn golf
No
If your goal is simply to get good at golf
It's pretty vaguit's kind of overwhelmmsure instead you could break it down okay into smaller more manageable chunks
Yeah
So instead of get good at golf
Your goal becomes learn to hit a drive two hundred yard straight ookay
Yeah
That's step two deconstructing the skill that makes kes lotiscience
And it makes the whole thing feel way less inmidating to it's like uh you know breaking down a giant puzzle
Yeah into smaller more manageable pieces
So now once you broken down the skill
You might be tempted to jump into tons of research
But i can so easily turn into progresstination right
Coffman calls step three strategic research okay
He recommends kiiming multiple resources to pinpoint like the most critical sub skills okay
And the best way to practice them right
Don't let research become this black hold
You never come out of i relate to that so much
I always get like stuck in the research face
And i feel like i'm making progress
But i'm really just you know consuming information
Yeah
Kffman en himself even admits that he had to train themselves to move from research to actual practice
So you know reading a cookbook cover to cover
But never actually making a dish
And that brings us to step for um removing barriers to practice okay
You know think about all those distractions in your daily yeah
Your phone social media yeah
That pile of laundry ies calpryour tium
These are the enemies of focus
They are for sure so confdence get some really limple but really effective tips for this
Like this for instance
If you're learning guitar yeah
Don't keep attucked away in its case
Leave it out in plain sight
Ok
So you're going to see it
And you're going to be more attempted to pick up
Right the easier
It is to access the more likely you are to practice yeah
So it's all about setting yourself up for success by minimizing distractions and maxizing those opportunities to practice yeah
It and leades to the final okay
And maybe the most crucial step
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没有precommitment
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Time more about this
This is where you commit to at least twenty hours a focus practice
No twenty hours that still sounds kind of like a lot to be honest
But think about it
Uh it's roughly forty minutes a day for a month okay
Yeah
That's duable but defintely managagable
Right if you
You break into into smaller chunks
Yeah
It's actually more about the psychology behind making that commitment
Then the number of hours itself okay
So by precommitted din you're holding yourself accountable
And you're creating this powerful internal motivator right to push past those initial hurdles that always come up
Yeah
When you're learning something new going
I makes a lot of sense
Like you're kind of signing a contract with yourself rame and the pay off
Well i mean imagine
Imagine gaining a brand new skill in just a month
Exactly
And with even more interesting
Is that this method works for both
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Cognitive skills like learning a language yeah and motorskills yeah
Playing an instrument or learning a sport
So you mean like how how can one method apply to such different types of learning
Well that's what will explore next okay
Get ready to discover how your brain approaches these different types of learning right
And how you can really tail your practice techniques accordingly sounds good
I'm ready
Hi let's do it
So it's fascinating right
How are brains
How they approach learning differently depending on what we're trying to learn
It's like there's a completely different uh mental playbook for
For cognitive skills
You know like when your memorizing facts are understanding concepts and verces
Motorskills like uh you know stuff to involves physical movement coordination
Exactly think think a new difference between ulelearning a new language yeah and learning how to play the piano
Okay
Both of them they require practice
But the techniques
Techniques that you use are going to be completely different
So how how do we how do we adapt cofmen's method
Then right for these
For these tytypes of learning
That's where gets interesting right yeah
We're understanding the new ansces of cognitive and motor skill
Ill velopment really comes in
Okay
So let's start with cognitive skills
Uh techniques like space repetition and active ory call are spper effective
Here okay
So i've heard those these terms before
But can you
Can
You maybe give us some some more concrete examples
Sure
Uh you know
Think
Uh think flash cards ok for memorizing vocabulary or historical dates or uh taking quiises ok
Ay test test your understanding of conconcepright
Uh these methods what they do
Is they leverage the power of a retrieval practice okay
They're forcing your brato actively recrecall that information which more you ally strengths those neural connection
Yeah Yeah
It's like you're building mental muscle
The more you use those pathways the stronger they get
And
And the more accessible they become
Ihi remember using flash cards all the time back in school
They
They really helped me like nail down those
Those tricky formulas
And all those vocab work exactly yeacacyeah
Yeah
Ah when it comes to motor skills
The focus
The focus kind of shifts
So repetition and refinement
Yeah
So you know imagine
Uh imagine practicing a golf swing okay
So ah a dance move the focus typing okay
It's all about training your muscles to
To execute the movements with precision influency
You know it's really cool about this
I've say uh remember that
Remember that detail on the video about practicing a skill right before bed
Yeah yeah yeah
Studidies actually shown that practicing a motor skske couple ple hours per you sleep can actually like boost your learning
It's true because
Because of how our brains consolidate memories during sleep
Yes Ah
It's like your brain is uh is working behind the scenes
Yeah Yeah
While you're kitching those these yes
Yeah Ah
It's solitifying those new motor patterns
Do you do you think the same thing applies to cognitive skills too yeah
That's a great question yeah
Ah definitely area of ongoing research okay
While the evidence is uh strongest for ttorcococonsolidation during leleep
Some studies
Some studies do suggest that sleep
So um also play a role in in reinforcing cognitive learning interesting
Well
That's
That's fascinthat more um i'm not to look into that more
Yeah
So so so
Why we're on the topic of
Of these effective practice techniques
Yeah
So well we can't forget about
You know the whole
The whole power or visualization right
Which uh
Which ffman talks about in the video
Yeah
Visualization
Visualization is a great example yeah
Of how we uh
We can really leverage the brain's ability to simulate real world exacces to improve our learning
It's like holding aa mental dress rehearsal for a performance
Exactly
Exactly
So by by vividly imagining yourself performing a skill
Your
You're activating many of the same neural pathways
Oh wow
That are involved in the the actual physical execution
Okay
You know think of a uh basbaseball player mentally reharsing a free throat or a musician uh visualizing their fingers moving across the keys of a piano
This really resonis with me um as a enymist ii used visualization law in
In my training
Really yeah
Ah before each routine
Before each routine
I would
I would close my eyes
And as would mentally walk through every single move
Like feeling my muscles engage
And
And just envisioning like a flalest format
It's Yeah
Ah It's Ah
It's a powerful technique
It can be applied to
To so many different schools
You know
And while it's not ua replacement for physical practice
It can really really enhance your performance with physically and mentally
So if we're looking at uh fmen's methothoas a whole le well
It seems like the key take away
Here is that accelererated learning
It isn't about you know shortcuts
Or
Or magic formulas or anything like that
It's about you know vximizing efficiency
And
And working smarter
Not necessarily harder
Yeah
You 've hit the nail on the head
You know it's about
It's about being intentional with your time and energy choosing the right techniques
The right techniques for the type of school
You're learning
Yeah Yeah
And in committing to that consistent practice
It's
It's empowering to know
You know that
You can
You can make significant progress in relatively short amount of time
It
It really debunkce that myth that learn earning has to be this
This long arduouous process
You know so for
For those listening
What if
What if we turn this into like a personal challenge
I like that
I like that
What if we ask our listeners
And what is one skill
One skill that you'll commit to mastery in the next twenty hours
Yeah
I love that challenge
And i want
I want to encourage everyone
You've always enlionn those
Those obvious choices
That maybe there's
There's a passion
That you've
You've been putting off something that you've always wanted to learn right
But you convince yourself
He didn't have the time for yeah
Have the talent for maybe
It's
Maybe it's learning to paint right us sah speak a new language or even master you know some new colonary technique
Whatever it is remember
Twenty hours
Twenty hours
All all it kes
Kes to open the door to a world of possibilities
It's
It's pretty inspiring right
When you think about all the all the possibilities out there
And what
What's so great
About about
Cofmen's approach is that it puts you
It puts you in the driver seat of of
Of your own learning ning you
You know you're not reliant on i'm like rigid curriculums or waiting for someone to to give you permission right to
To pursue your
Your pch
You to set your own goals
You break down the skills
And you put in the
The focused effort
It's exactly it's you know tapping back into that
That natural curiosity yeah
An excitement
That extetement all all is as kids right
And when we were learning something new
And
And who knows maybe
Maybe those hhours will
Will ignite a lifelong passion yeah
You never knew you had that's
That's the transformative power of learning
Yeah
It can
It can change not only your
Your skill set right
But also you 're your perspectives
And
And ultimately life
Life This
This deep dive has been incredible
Yeah We
We debuged hohold ten thousand hour myth
We did explored
Explored how how our brains learn differently right
We We even
We even touched on the power of visualization
We unpacked
Unpack cofment's five step method
Yeah
Given you
Given you a practical road map to master any skill
You said your mind to as as we wp p here here
Want to
We want to leave you with this embrace the journey
Yeah
Don't don't let fear or self doubt hold you back
Ah the world is full of possibilities and the the only limit
Yeah is your own imagination
So go out there
Yeah
Go for it
And make those twenty hours count
