Josh Kaufmanon “How to learn anything”

Submitted to

Prof. Sameer Mathur by

Pankaj Kumar, PGP30262

How to learn anything

Life is too BusyI do not have free time

Excuses

Its not exactly true but it FEELS true

How long does it take to acquire a new Skill

10,000 Hours many books and websites says

Its equivalent to a full time job for 5 years

But that’s not True

This is required for Expert Level Performance

What research says

By much lower (than 10,000 hours) practice time a moderate level of performance can be achieved

Performance Curve

• Early level of skill acquisition is really fast

• As we spend more and more time lessor value addition

So how long it take starting from grossly incompetent to being reasonably good

20 Hours

If you put 20 hours of focus deliberate practice

45 minutes a day for a monthyou can learn any of these skills

• Want to learn a language ?• Want to learn how to draw ?• Want to learn playing guitar ?

Four simple steps to

Rapid skill acquisition

1.Deconstruct the skill

Most of the things which we see as skills are actually are a bundles of smaller skills

Look into the skill and break into the smaller and smaller pieces

2. Learn enough to self correct

Get 2 to 3 different resources from to learn

Don’t use these resources as a way to procrastinate the practice

Learn just enough that you can practice and self correct yourself

Learning become noticing when you make mistake and getting better

3. Remove barriers to practice

4. Practice at least 20 hours

Major barrier to learning isn’t intellectual..

Its Emotional

References• Ted talk by Josh Kaufman.• Photos from Google images.

Created by Pankaj Kumar, IIM Lucknow

as part of an MBA course "Personal Branding“ www.mbaskills.in

Taught by Prof. Sameer Mathur

IIM, Lucknow Marketing Professor ( 2013- current )------------------------------------------------------------------------ Marketing Professor 2009-2013------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ph.D. and M.S. (Marketing) 2003-2009