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

+James Benton Ticer Hahaha... This really cracked me up.

+James Benton Ticer lol! I am at my 100th hour of browsing unrelated RU-vid videos and I am proficient.

Good stuff bro. Keep it up!

+James Benton Ticer Are you APPLYING the information in the talks though? Knowledge without application is actually a waste of time where as Knowledge + Application = Power

+Jon White I think you missed the joke.

I love that ❤

Yeah that line resonated with me. I’ve caught myself stopping things early because I hated not feeling adept at something immediately. I needed this

What is emotion?

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​@@cooperblackwell1392 So true, I tried painting and stopped for a while cause i felt like I didn't have talent in it. I looked back at my sketchbook and realized my paintings were actually so good.

thanks!

Not all the skills can be divided into pieces. What skills are you talking about??

Thnx

​@@manda_o_pix yes, every skill can be divided

@@swayambadhe give examples

LOL

Ryuzaki if shouldn't take you 20 hours to find your X, she probably not coming back

How'd it go with the algebra test lol)?

Algebra....you're kidding right?

55555555555555555555 so what was your result ??? ;p

thanks man

PRACTICE 40 hours a day!!!

Thanks 🙏

Thank you so much. You just saved me 20 minutes

What is 20 hours

❤❤❤❤❤❤ I know right! Thank you

Nah it's not that much

for all the procrastinators out here!

thank you

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thank you very much

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Great!

You are the greatest example that this works. Thanks mate

congratulations! I'm a native speaker of Chinese and English is my second language. I have a hard time in learning it due to the tradition way of teaching in my school. how I wish all my teacher watch Ted (there is no Ted back then). I found another good way to learn English let me share with u. don't try to remember words as it is very discouraged. instead try read the books /newspaper that is your level. your level means in one page there is no more than 10 unknown words to u. and dun hurry to search the meaning of every single words u duno. just guess the meaning and move on. if u feel happy just look up for 1 - 2 words u find interesting. that's my way of learning. just sharing 😊👍

@@danielliew2192 I am a 17 y.o girl. I just watched this Video because I got struggle in learning chinese, I really liked to learn chinese but, I found it hard to study and understand the 8000+ words, in Chinese there are so many kind of tones of words that we used to speak in dialogue and I was like I'm getting tired, and close to giving up. But I don't think I can quit because I really want to be a native speaker in Chinese XD and I'm here asking you for some tricks to learn Chinese XD

Omggggg great

Consistency is the key to a successful investing journey as modest investments for longer periods of time will usually outperform larger investments over shorter periods. I’ll keep working with Mr Trevor James his ways are very defined and yields results

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Thanks, for resume! 😊

Thanks a bunch. You're my hero!

So he's the guy who sends his assignment in the class group after completing with no intention of return from anyone. Legend!! ♥

congratulation, now you can give a perfect ted talk

thanks a lot

Thank for your sharing

I don't​ know you but. I feel so goooood​. When I read​ your​ story life

I'm learning English for three months and I'm happy, I am understand your text. I'm going following my dream of learn a new language. I'm from Brazil.

Thanks for sharing your story :)

Thank you for sharing your inspiring experience and advice.

You promised yourself this, don't give up ♥️

Me too… will be circling back!

aaaa, me too! I loved it!!!!

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LOL same HAHAHA, actually I´m in english online class right now XD

Sameeee

I feel u bruh :"

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i agree. the man said very good

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Omg, it's get me emotional... lol

Well, actually, this assumtion could realy be applied to any part of our life! From breaking ups with the love ones to hardship at workplace! Indeed! Great speach!

Good boy

Thanks for the summary! You just saved me 20 minutes to put towards my 20 hours to learn a new skill! lol

Thanks. I hope you do not mind of I copy your comment.

@@daveojeda Sadly people that have this "Give me results now" are the very ones that plato much quicker than others and mostly give up and/or never achive their goal New years res. area great example of this If sitting down for a 20 minute video on how to change your life is to much, i do NOT feel the problem is time for you but more on focus and realistic achivements

Could you elaborate on the 2nd point?

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QuickTalks this is scary bc im trying to learn korean bc im a denial koreaboo omg

Thank you ✌️👍

Omg, me too! So true! I'm grateful for this video and the speaker 🙏🏾😊

Nice. I got to save listening to this ego maniac.

Thanks, I've been listening to this specific video for six years. Thanks for the sum up. the guy is great though.

Yes, but he broke the first rule of TED talks, he gave actionable advice.

You spoiled it for me tnx

The sum up is why it's worth it to check the comments. Thanks!

Same dude😂

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🤣🤣 same here😅

somebody already said that

@@cat-oz4pe how

@@cat-oz4pe nobody cares, they just said that quote is what they took to their hearts and thats what matters.

Yes. Good one.

George Bizos Agreed because somebody could spend 10,000 hours studying but text every 5mins also its how you learn the subject. My mom is a graduate from Harvard and her biggest lesson to me was willpower can overcome lack of talent and lack of intelligence. Its crazy because we all have 24hours in a day its how you spend those hours.

George Bizos Dude buy CSGO on steam. And start playing some competetive. ANd you will speak fluent russian in like 2 days....

CrazyGamerZ4G ggwp true story

George Bizos Russian is a diificult language.Желаю удачи и большого терпения в нелегком труде.

Its not as difficult considering i know Greek.

Way to go, Burak!

Tebrikler Burak :)

Pankaj Kumar thank you pal, i’m pretty sure that you will achieve your goal.

Sefa Saraç teşekkürler Sefa ^^

You're quite good!

Seven years ago

And still u have achieved nothing how useless spark

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@@AsifRafique_ and this 2020. Still have someone useless out there?

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Confirmed.

+RookieN08 ну и что ты понял в таком случаи?))

+RookieN08 wow.. that was amazing.. teach me too XD

The only thing I could read is: My name is Putin, how are you doing?

+RookieN08 CSGO is quite the teacher as well.

Same question on my mind 😂

Yeah same here bro 🤣

Can you please 🤣

Mindmapping

any ideas ??

Thank you!

@@Sarabella68 you’re welcome

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Really good one.. I heard it twice till now

@@nadaabdu7957 awesome

thanks you to Goodluck

dude, marry me :))

+Shell Madrid wtf

i said from bottom of my heart :))) i have a ring right now so if you can take a flight to my Spain, just call me baby :)))

Yes, I agree!

So true

I feel the same too.

Despair can be overwhelming.

You should have English-Vietnamese bilingual subtitles

Actually, I think the reason it's so popular is that it gives people who don't want to do any work one more reason to sit and stare at a screen while doing nothing.

True very good personable speaker

Yep

Absolutely agree .. emotion is tied to memory ..

bro no it takes 20 hours alone to learn kanji, i have gone insane now i literally learn kanji everyday, i have no life now.

Agree. Just keep doing it, and you will find you are there suddenly.

@@kanjifreak420i learned kanji by learning the words in context. learning the 120 ways to read 生 will get you nowhere if the book, tv show, etc. you’re reading only uses the readings なま and いきる. learn stuff in the context of words! it will be less stressful and more intuitive that way. a lot of native stuff doesn’t require knowledge of kanji anyway, and a lot more uses ふりがな! good luck kanjifreak.

@@sejcai thanks I'll try it.

This video made me want to learn Japanese again , I would start learning Japanese by learning from books designed for schools, they would slowly teach you grammar rules and a couple of business words are how to greet someone . I would quickly get bored and after a couple of weeks quit. But that's the thing the books I was using were designed to teach business men , they focus on grammar because it's an easy subject to grade on tests. But I don't care about any of that. What I need is the most important elements, that will make it easy for me to understand general Japanese . I'm still going to use those books but I'm not going to make them the central focus of my learning.

The polar opposite of the same difficulty

Nobody says music theory lol

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- Said any spaceship program student never

how did you type the time

@@cat-oz4pe just type it and it will be linkable

You're a wholesome person

My problem is that i get so bored and jittery when tryna learn something it's like i can't focus

@@limo9402 Boredom is inevitable at first but you gonna feel excited when you start mastering your thing... remember that you will feel worst before starting feel better

Ln.

Totally true, learning process requires motivation in order to be efective.

No, its not. The major barrier in leaning anything is finding someone that can put it in term simple enough to understand. Ninety nine percent of those books are written so badly that you leave as clueless as when you came in.Thing is, you've got to read through all of them before you can find the one that makes what you want to learn make sense. Only a very small group of people know how to do this. And even smaller group knows how to make learning interesting.

@@krane15 I agree with this, but perhaps the fact that you are reading those books, and that you're a part of that small group that knows how to make learning interesting, means that you have already passed the emotional barrier. Most people don't have the interest or motivation to seek out that knowledge in the first place. I don't think you're wrong, I think you're awesome. But maybe you've been awesome for so long that you've forgotten the challenges that prevent non-awesome people from being awesome?

@@AaronAtkinson When you said motivation you struck a never. In my entire time in HS I don't recall a single teacher that went above and beyond to teach. They did the minimum to meet their requirements, but no more, and no less. Well, maybe sometimes less. In any event, if the student got it, fine. If they didn't, it was their tough luck. In college, I had a total of two professors that went above and beyond the call of duty to help me and other student to pas tests and succeed. What I mean is they did things like coming in on their days off to give students individual tutelage on parts they found difficult, and helping the surmount other administrative challenges that would get in the way of their studies. I guess I would categorize that on removing all distractions. But that's easier said than done. Some distractions are under your control, others are not. Eliminating all distractions takes time and can be draining. Anyway, I know this isn't exactly on topic, but your post reminded me, and it is closely related nonetheless. They say you can learn anything on youtube. Thing is. you have to watch 10 hours of useless videos to get to that one that put things in terms that you can understand. Can you then say you learned how to grow radishes in 1 hour? What becomes of that 10 hours of video where you learned next to nothing? Nevertheless, I appreciate the compliment, but I wouldn't call myself awesome. Rather, I say I was aware -- of some of the difficulties in learning a new skills, and so can often recognize and focus on getting around those difficulties. When the author claims 20 hours it takes for granted that all the time is productive, and ignores the time it takes to get through all the useless material to get to that actual leaning point. A structured learning environment removes much of that effort, but not necessarily all of it. Of course the true definition of learning has always bothered me as well. Is memorizing learning? If you don't understand what the nomenclature or what the jargon means, knowing the definition won't help you much. On the other hand, you can always memorize a passage and get it right, but that doesn't mean you understand it. If an instructor puts it in the right words you can learn something new instantly. When they don't, or can't, they can repeat it a million times and it still won't resonate or have any real meaning. I offer my most challenging example: A linear equation is an equation in the form y = mx + b. Maybe its ridiculously clear to some folks (a left brain/right brain thing?), but it wasn't to me. At least, not at the time. Cliffs: 1) Part of learning is teaching, and teachers can be good or really, really bad. 2) Only a small percentage of teachers go beyond the minimum required to teach. 3) Total study time is not always relate to total learning time. 4) Comfortable learning environments vary, and can sometimes be difficult to achieve. 5) Memorizing material may not be considered the same as learning it.

Guitar is a lot of fun and hard at first but eventually it feels kind of natural and you'll start to fiddle around with new things too

Me too lol

ME TOOO

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Finally, we know, the sectret of your power Sensei.

hahahahah

This title is a clickbait. It took him 3 years to became so good at playing ukulele

Yooooooo I totally was gonna say the same thing!! lmao

lol

My friend, do you have any good tickets that you can recommend to me?

What are practice barriers?

@@dianag4163 distractions like tiktok etc

Dugimeister yes, you are right this people need 10 thousand hours of listening and comprehension he clearly stated "not a master"

Dugimeister you're totally right.

that's it you are a maneuver helped me from a jeopardy

Agreed. But it is the internet =b You can't expect everyone to actually pay attention and comprehend everything lol. This is really helpful information, and very encouraging for a multipontentialite like myself. (if that word sounds crazy... its another TED talk)

Were talking about the RU-vid comments section here what do you expect, personally I took the lesson and I'm gonna apply it to my life so if everyone else misses the point that's not my problem ya know

We needed to learn a little more about life and practical skills at school! The school system is so broken :(

@@AlineAzevedo13 thing is, majority of teachers are more concerned about getting passed the curriculum as efficient as possible. I dont blame them that much tho. In america, teachers are just not paid enough. The best teachers tho look outside the box and improve the students foundation with videos like this, and ultimately, become mote efficient at getting through the course.

@@AlineAzevedo13 Yup. Schools teach students very little to succeed. Students have to deal with unnecessary and uninterested Assignments. As a school graduate myself, I have no idea how to invest money, save money, do taxes, manage expenses, what to do with my first paycheck, know about life, and things like that😕😔. I don't even know why I went to college for.

Teachers in university are very similar to this actually tbh this reminds me of one the teachers at harvard in the computer science course.

more or less health teachers

Hey man! I’m still struggling learning it. Any tips? Thanks

@@Bladebrian are u still struggling?

@@Bladebrian just learn how to say porcoddio. the rest will follow

So cool to find this comment when I'm just starting my journey on learning Italian! Glad to here that. This comment was 7 months ago, may I ask if you're still at it?

I'm brazilian. I'm trying to learn english but it's very difficult

ditto

+Chris Mentalist well, from birth you slept well inside the 20 hour mark.. so, technically you "learned how" to sleep before the time limit........................ poop

Overqualified..

+Chris Mentalist Keep trying bro, never back down, it may take a lifetime, but I'm sure you'll achieve the perfect sleep.

I had same problem when until turned 21, that's when you ll start getting tired af at the end of the day...how it was for me

That is a big difference yeah haha

Pat, you arent going to win the Tour De France no matter you put in 1 million hours

@@bruceleehiiiyaaa tell that to Lance Armstrong

@@patrickschwarz6549 Lance Armstrong put in the drugs as well.

How to learn a language by 20hr?

same.

dont put yourself down boy. pay attention , learn to learn as you learn .

Madyson Ramkowsky you might be joking, but just do something. Doesn’t matter what that thing is as long it’s something you find somewhat interesting

I learn english with Ted video

Relatable (:

Now do programming😄

What is ukulele?

@@shakeelahmed2994 a small guitar

you do not learn to play ukulele , you just learn 10 3 chords songs

@kittykitty montero In 20 hours you can learn HTML and CSS and make decent looking web pages. Or you can learn how to make simple algorythms Or you can learn how to make a simple mobile app You actually can learn a lot of things in 20hours of programming. "Programming" is a really large topic, but if you focus on one thing in particular you can get usable results :P

Cảm ơn chia sẻ của cậu, mình sẽ bắt đầu học tiếng Trung!

Learnt the language but didnt learn what its called. Interesting

@@vinodrawat-kw6oc what a sad person you are

加油朋友, 中文确实没有这么难！

@@afen5252 well you got that part right

this comment deserves more likes

This guy is waaaaay too sweet to be Agent 47. Unless 47 finally got on some happy meds....

@@cameronaccident5434 haha, thanks

@@asc.k1865 Haha

@@asc.k1865 he had some ayahuasca sessions and it really mellowed him out.

Wow... great for your explosive change.👍 congratulations.

So beautiful!!!!!!!!❤️

Well done sir! A real master at Work! More power to ya!

Doctor and pilot? You sir, are epic!!!!

진짜 멋있어요!!! 우와...

Are you implying you have to be good at something to graduate high school? Lol. Good one.

@@danm2084 no. no one is saying that

let's not exaggerate: 20 hours does not get you good, in 20 hours you can barely do a passable job. Sorry, but the ukulele playing was pretty lame, IMO. In reality, we have to decide on our goals and our desired level of achievement. It is good to have this reference point. So, for any of us, the truth lies somewhere between 20 and 10K hours.

@@juhanleemet hour does not matter , how you learn does

@@shivrajsingh4715 pretty much this, could take someone 9 thousand hours to find out how to learn and practice effectively and then the last 1 thousand hours is them doing that process to become the master. Or it could take them 5 thousand hours to learn how to learn that skill -- thats how I look at it since everyone learns things differently

+Max Siebert Congrats! :D

Nothing in particular, it really depends on what you want to accomplish. Do you like to learn to improvise and create your own songs or do you want to read musical scores ?

Composing is not like a high level of playing piano or something... Composing and playing are two entirely different skills. You are putting it in a way like "I've become so good at playing piano that im composing now" which is not the way it works

I appreciate your opinion about that,maybe i put that into that way, because i never thought it would be possible! And it's true, composing and playing are two different skills. But imagining techniques for example arpeggios and composing songs that are above your own piano skill level is a really efficient way to improve your own skills, just like an impromptu. I never experienced such fast progress by playing sheet music.

+Max Piano The word is learned!

5. Commit to the 20 hours (if you can't then pick something would commit to).

good point

He does emphasize it, repeatedly, here and on other platforms. In the same way that people misconstrue the 10,000 hour "rule" for mastery, they misconstrue his message of 20 hours to learn one skill FOR FUN, because listening comprehension is a lost art or something. Gladwell: "It takes 10,000 hours to attain world class mastery in a given field." Groundlings: "ZOMG it takes 10k hours just to learn this one thing!" Kaufman: "It takes 20 hours to learn how to order at a restaurant in French." Groundlings: "ZOMG you can't be completely fluent in a language that fast YOU LIES" et cetera.

Well you can learn a lot from a program like Scratch or some other coding thing for kids. But indeed you get o know the basics. And from there you need more hours to become better at it. However, 20 hours to get to the basic is quit okay. Even learning IP ranges and subnetting is not that impossible in 20 hours.

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He said it clearly 20 hours is enough, You can't motivate me when you say a lying because I will be frustrated when can't reached it cause it's not true at all

This has been out for 9 years lol

What he means to say is out of the many ted talks that HE has PERSONALLY watched, this was the most, or one of the most practical and helpful.

@@ajp2206 I know, I just mean its been here for him to watch for a long time

@@technolus5742 nobody asked lol

@@garimaahuja9319 shocker, people say things without being asked

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ありがとうございます。

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Thanks ... I have spent 20,000 hours well ten years full time practicing law of attraction and they say it's not a college degree its whether you are practicing in the moment or not (Esther hicks) I must be a grandmaster now right?🐳🐳🐳❤️️❤️️💕❤️️❤️️

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