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Week 11 [1.06-7.06] How To Learn Anything


Josh Kaufman is an author of the #1 bestseller, ‘The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business' in this video he is taking us to 4 steps to acquire a new skill in 20 hours.




Questions:
  1. Have you ever heard of the 10 000 hours rule? Which are more realistic 20 hours or 10 000 hours? Explain what you choose.

  1. Do you find this video helpful? What are your Strategies to acquire a new skill?

  1. Do you think practice is more important than talent to be good at something?

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Ela said…
1. Have you ever heard of the 10 000 hours rule? Which are more realistic 20 hours or 10 000 hours? Explain what you choose.
I've heard about this rule before. I think that the time we need to devote to something depends on our abilities. A person who has absolute hearing will always faster learn how to sing than a person who doesn’t have it. It seems to me that 20 hours is definitely more realistic to achieve a level of knowledge higher than zero. The 10,000-hour rule sounds very discouraging and we can immediately conclude that we aren’t fit for something, and this may not be true.

2. Do you find this video helpful? What are your Strategies to acquire a new skill?
I think this film gives hope and makes us aware that we usually don't want to learn something because we are afraid. I have very similar strategies in acquiring knowledge to those presented in the film, maybe because I also learned how to play the ukulele myself.

3. Do you think practice is more important than talent to be good at something?
I think that practice is definitely more important, because you can have talent for something, don’t practice and this talent is missed. Preferably, one goes hand in hand with another, then it’s an ideal situation.
1. I have not heard about this rule before. It depends if you want to become a specialist, to be the best in your field, you have to sacrifice thousands of hours. However, you do not have to be a specialist in everything and then the 20 hours rule works out, it certainly sounds less discouraging.

2. This video was interesting. It depends on what skill I want to acquire but above all I focus on exercising regularly. I often set myself a few hours a week, during which I focus on doing something.

3. If you want to be the best (e.g. in sports) then you must have talent. Nevertheless, I believe that there are many activities in which we can be good thanks to dedication and hard work.
Andrzej Kawiak said…
1. Have you ever heard of the 10 000 hours rule? Which are more realistic 20 hours or 10 000 hours? Explain what you choose.

The theory of 10,000 hours of exercise is based on research by Swedish psychologist K. Anders Ericsson, who reached his conclusions on the basis of an analysis of the success of violin virtuosos. It seems to me that someone becomes an expert in his field after working out so many hours. However, the rule of 20 hours a week concerns a completely different issue. It takes 20 hours to overcome the barrier of frustration that appears every time we start to learn something completely new. After working around 20 hours, you understand a given topic. It's starting to seem like it's going to be easy now. Of course, this is an illusion, because in practice it is only after this time that difficulties begin.

2. Do you find this video helpful? What are your Strategies to acquire a new skill?
While working I am constantly acquiring new skills and practicing by repeating those already acquired.

3. Do you think practice is more important than talent to be good at something?
In my opinion, Talent helps at the start and significantly reduces initial costs. The problem with talent and work is that it is a kind of value conflict. There is no clear answer. If someone has talent and does not develop it, they will be left behind.
Yubin said…
1. Have you ever heard of the 10 000 hours rule? Which are more realistic 20 hours or 10 000 hours? Explain what you choose.
No, I haven't heard about this rule before, I just search about it now, I think 20 hours rule sounds more realistic, because in 10000 hours, there may be only 2500 hours of effective work, so called "payload" as an IT term. If before we start this 10000-hour career, we spend 20 hours learning how to master effective work, maybe we can become an expert in only 3000 hours.

2. Do you find this video helpful? What are your Strategies to acquire a new skill?
Yes, it is helpful, it gives people the courage to try to master new skills. For me, the strategy for acquiring new skills is to focus on the skill we want to master, and don’t try to focus on more than one skill in a time. Before studying IT for three years, I mainly studied music, and since the first day of IT study, I haven’t touched an instrument again.

3. Do you think practice is more important than talent to be good at something?
I think it should be equal to 30% talent + 70% practice. In addition, meeting an excellent mentor is also a very important factor.
1) No, I had never heard of it so it did sound to me like nonsense. I believe it is as Josh explained - 10 000 is needed to become an expert (I am wondering how these calculations were done) and 20 hours is a requirement to learn the basics of something. I can't choose which one is more realistic, because these are two different things. But when it comes to "learning something new" it will be 20 for sure.

2) Yes, it did help me indeed. Maybe it is not rocket science, but again such videos arrange lots of thoughts in our minds and it helps to make some conclusions.

3) I don't necessarily believe in talents. Maybe people are born with some sorts of skills even because of our genetics, but most of the things we know are what we actually learned during our life. Sitting in front of a computer and expecting any progress might not work here.
Aleksander said…
1. Have you ever heard of the 10 000 hours rule? Which are more realistic 20 hours or 10 000 hours? Explain what you choose.
I saw that video in the past so I know the idea. Of course, everything depends on perspective- for a fast start: 20 hours is a much better idea.
2. Do you find this video helpful? What are your Strategies to acquire a new skill?
Very helpful. My strategy is not to procrastinate and start doing immediately after I came to any idea. What's more, I start from small, simple things that are easy to learn/do.
3. Do you think practice is more important than talent to be good at something?
It depends. A human with a talent, whose practice is the best, an expert. However, usually, people who work hard = practice gain better results than talented people because very often people with talent don't want to work so hard.
1. Yes i have heard something somewhere about this 10000 hours rule but i didn’t give any thought into it. As it was said in the video 10000 hours are required to become an expert but than when he said about 20 hours rule, i realized that most of the courses at universities last about 30 hours. So i think 20 hours are enough to acquire new skill and rest of the time is just practice and getting better.
2. Yes i find it helpful and motivating. Usually when i want to learn something new first i do research on internet and than i quit learning or go to practise part.
3. I think practise is more important because even when you have talent you still have to practice. Talent can be useful when your on top level and then can overpoper person with lots of practise and none talent.
Yuliia Sauliak said…
Have you ever heard of the 10 000 hours rule? Which are more realistic 20 hours or 10 000 hours? Explain what you choose.

I haven`t heard about this rule before and I don`t think there should be some timeframe for learning anything, because efficiency of such learning depends not on the time only and there should be no particular criteria on how much time to spend on learning. Depends on the topic, your interest, abilities, which is extremely important. With poor perception and abilities to some subject it will take you likely half of your life to learn and get someting.

Do you find this video helpful? What are your Strategies to acquire a new skill?

May be it is helpful for someone, however don`t find it applicable to myself. If I want to learn someting new I just make a research on this topic. If that is a new language I find how to organize my learning, but obviously cannot know how quick I learn it in order to speak fluently

Do you think practice is more important than talent to be good at something?

No, I think talent is more important as whatever efforts you make you won`t sing as talented person if you practice whatever time you spend, the same about other arts and also exact science.
1. Have you ever heard of the 10 000 hours rule? Which are more realistic 20 hours or 10 000 hours? Explain what you choose.
I have never heard about this rule. I think most realistic is 20 hours than 10000 hours. I think when we want learn something new then we need to try. The 20 hours is enough time to check if we can do that and that skill is for us.

2. Do you find this video helpful? What are your Strategies to acquire a new skill?
I think this video is very helpful. We can learn a lot from it. I think if you want to learn new skill then you need to focus on that task and spend every free time to practice. You need to love it. If you like what you do then you will succeed.

3. Do you think practice is more important than talent to be good at something?
Yes, I do. I think if you practice then you can improve your skill and be better. If you have talent then you learn fast and in short time you are good enough to use your new skill.
1 / Yes, I heard about this term and technique, but I did not use and was not interested in it in more detail. The term 20 hours is more suitable for me ...
2 / Yes, this is a rather useful video; it has many options for exploring new techniques.
3 / I think that you can fully use these two data to achieve your goal.
Kyrylo said…

Have you ever heard of the 10 000 hours rule? Which are more realistic 20 hours or 10 000 hours? Explain what you choose.
Regular practice, IMO is the best way. No need for special ticks and tricks.

Do you find this video helpful? What are your Strategies to acquire a new skill?
Regular practice, as usual. I have acquired all my skills that way.

Do you think practice is more important than talent to be good at something?
Most certainly. Talent itself is not worth much.
Filip Bartuzi said…
1.Have you ever heard of the 10 000 hours rule? Which are more realistic 20 hours or 10 000 hours? Explain what you choose.


I've never been aware of this. I think learning a new skill in 20 hours is possible, but polishing that skill to perfection will take a lot longer. It depends on our abilities to learns new things and adapt to them as well.



2.Do you find this video helpful? What are your Strategies to acquire a new skill?


I do find this video helpful. But most likely I would do some research to find someone who can teach me or at least point me in the right direction.



3.Do you think practice is more important than talent to be good at something?


I think they are both equal. It only takes more time to learn something from the beginning without any talent for it. A lot of practice will give You the same or close enough results.
Have you ever heard of the 10 000 hours rule? Which are more realistic 20 hours or 10 000 hours? Explain what you choose.

Well I have heard but i still believe that it is more individual things it is more based on our prepositions of doing particular things

Do you find this video helpful? What are your Strategies to acquire a new skill?

Yes it can be helpful, and as far as I remember it helped me a few years ago - so deffinitly :)

Do you think practice is more important than talent to be good at something?

Yes, I mean "talent" (so some kind of natural predisposition to do something) is really making things easy but with enough practice we can do whatever we like in pro way
1. I have not heard of this method before. I think it all depends on the individual's skill and talent. Someone will need only a few hours to acquire knowledge on a given topic and someone else will need much more time. I think, however, that the 10,000 hour method sounds quite discouraging.
2. Virtually all of Ted's movies are interesting and contain a lot of information. My way to achieve my goal is to do exercises, continuous exercises.
3. I think both talent and practice must go hand in hand to transfer skills. However, I think that humbleness and continuous practice can do a lot.
Olga Bogdał said…
1. I have not heard bout any of these technics before. the study he made seems very interesting to me. I think both of these technics do not exclude each other's. You can start with the 20 hours technics and if you really get passionate about it and don't loose your interest after that time the rest of the 10 000 hours will pass quite fast and you become a master in what you always wanted to do.

2. It is very helpful, thank you for showing this. I usually do not think about ant technic, when I learn something new I just try to learn it as fast as I can but it can be demotivating at times because I expect the results too soon. Knowing what I know now might be very helpful.

3. I do believe that. I am a violinist and I have been practicing my whole life since I was six. I try to develop this skill now in a bit different direction that classical music and feel motivated after this talk. Thanks again.

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