The first 20 hours -- how to learn anything | Josh Kaufman | TEDxCSU

The best way to learn anything is to try to teach what you know.

Here’s the operating theory: you don’t need to spend 10,000 hours at anything to be the best. You just need to be pretty good at something (spend a couple of hundred hours) and then you need to know how to give a good talk in public. You will stand out, because so few people want to talk in public.

So I think this is a really interesting concept you can apply in a lot of different ways. And the key thing here I think is that slow and steady is great. You don't have to do anything heroic. You know the difference in slopes doesn't have to be that great if you just every day think about learning a little bit more and getting a little bit better,

Find a way to break your learning down into smaller chunks. Try to focus on the fundamentals.

So let’s ask ourselves: If we’re going to overcome this challenge, what would our montage look like? What would we need to practice and learn and create in order to tackle this challenge?