Key 20 hours, quickly learn any skill

"The key 20 hours, quickly learn any skills" is a very magical book, even if you think the name of the audience, you will still be able to open up to see what it said.

The difference between skill acquisition and skill learning

"The key 20 hours, quickly learn any skills" first introduced the two concepts of skill acquisition and skill learning and their differences. Simply put:

• Skill acquisition can solve a practical problem as the goal, analyze the key factors to achieve the goal according to the problem, grasp these key elements in practice, and reach the degree of solving the problem.
• Skill learning is biased towards the theory of systematic learning, in-depth understanding of a skill-related concepts, theories, methods, principles and so on, and then try to apply.

For a simple example, we learn English from primary school, words, grammar, tenses, spelling, reading, all the way to the university, this is the path of skills learning. Skills learning often makes you deviate from your goals, so more than 80% of college graduates understand English-speaking countries and speak fluent English. This is the malady of skill learning. If you want to speak fluent English, you may be able to learn English by listening to this skill--you have to put yourself in an English-speaking environment, and you can communicate with people in English very quickly.

This is the difference between skill acquisition and skill learning.

This is not to say that skill learning is not important. On the contrary, the theoretical knowledge of skills is extremely important, and it can enhance your training effect in practice. If you want to improve a certain skill, or under the guidance of theoretical knowledge, in practice constantly self-revision and improvement, so that after long-term training, to become the top figure of the skill (10,000-hour theory).

The reality is that many of the skills we use in our lives do not need to reach the master level, as long as it helps us to solve the problem. So as long as we acquire the skills, it is enough to grasp the key essentials quickly. This process, according to Choshi Kaufman's experience and theory, takes only 20 hours.

I contacted my own experience and found that it was really possible. For example, I learn to drive in driving school, every Saturday to go once, about 15 minutes of study, before and after the last four months or so, and then on the road, but also to obtain a driver's license. It takes about 20 hours to really spend your time practicing driving.

More than a moment. I want to build a blog site with node. js, collect node. JS related information, framework, key modules, then configure the environment, understand the basic JavaScript syntax, run Hello World, learning Mongoose, all the way down, also about 3 days.

To acquire a skill quickly and experience the achievement, you need skill learning and repetitive practice and training to make this skill a prominent advantage. Otherwise, if you don't, you'll soon throw it away again. For example, my node. js, the work is not used, lack of practice, now forget. and driving, because every day open for the sake of, has been very skilled, into the subconscious level.

10 ways to acquire skills quickly

Choshi Kaufman The most important thing about this book is that it summarizes the 10 methods of fast acquisition skills and provides examples of two skills acquisition of yoga, programming, blind play, go, piano, and surfing, demonstrating how to apply these 10 methods to quickly master a skill .

Let's take a look at 10 ways to quickly acquire skills:

1. Select direction
2. Concentrate on your efforts
3. Set goals
4. Decomposition skills
5. Get Tools
6. Removing obstacles
7. Freeing up time
8. Timely feedback
9. Timed Training
10. Quantity speed

Do you understand the names of these methods? Come and see what Choshi Kaufman said, is not the same as you think, perhaps you have a sense of empathy.

1. Select a direction

If you want to acquire skills, you have to have a point of interest. You have to find the problem, and you have a lot of interest to solve it. Because the more interested you are, the quicker you'll learn.

If you are not interested in a skill at all, and you want to learn it 20 hours, it's almost impossible.

2. Focus your Energies

one of the keys to learning skills is the ability to focus time and energy on the learning of a particular skill . That is, you will only learn the skills you have been waiting for in this period of time, concentrate on, learn only one, and practice repeatedly. If today want to learn this tomorrow to learn that, each only adjusting supervised two, it is difficult to learn.

3. Setting goals

No problem, no goal, you don't have to learn a skill at all.

This goal, it is simple to say is the completion of this skill after you ask yourself to achieve what level? What can you do with such skills in your daily life? The more you wash your goals, the better you learn.

So, how do we set goals? This is about why you prefer to learn this skill.

For example, I study ria reading calligraphy, the goal is very clear, is able to quickly write book reviews and recommended books, so as long as a few hours to master the use of Ria, plus five or six times to open the book practice, you can, get any of the practical books, can be in three hours to write a book review or recommendation text. I don't need to learn about Ria's adult learning theories behind calligraphy, nor do I need to learn how to guide others in their books, because my goal is not to be a book-breaking home.

4. Decomposition skills

Most of the skills we learn require refinement steps. In the beginner skills, be sure to sift through the steps, the key steps to find out, then focus on time and energy to learn.

For example, playing golf, very meticulous steps. The first step is to choose the right club, then learn how to swing the tee, how to deal with the bunker, how to send the ball into the hole, and so on.

5. Access to Tools

Most of the skills of learning are inseparable from the necessary tools.

Want to program, no computer, no IDE, okay? You want to drive, you don't have a car, okay? You want to fish, you don't have a fishing rod, okay?

6. Removing obstacles

Learning from each skill can be an obstacle, and sometimes it can make training difficult or even serious to give up. We must intelligently use willpower to solve problems, to change the disadvantages we face, and to eliminate the barriers to training.

7. Freeing up time

We have to devote our time to acquiring new skills. Unfortunately, we tend to acquire new skills while taking into account other interests, such as watching TV, playing games and so on. We often say, "Wait till I find the time." ”

In fact, if you expect to "find" time to do something, it will never be done. To "find" the time, you have to "free" time.

Freeing up time, the most critical is to analyze your day's time consumption, eliminate those unnecessary, inefficient time, such as the toilet to watch the phone lead to toilet time extended 10 minutes, such as eating to watch TV cause meal time extended 20 minutes, can save out to learn new skills. Time is like the water in the sponge, the squeeze is always there. You say there is no time, often because this matter is not important to you. Once it's important that you don't learn to die, you'll find time anyway.

8. Timely Feedback

Quick feedback helps to acquire skills quickly. If the feedback is timely or only a little bit delayed, we will be more likely to compare the actual operation and the results obtained by the current analysis, and then make the appropriate adjustments.

Why learn programming have pleasure, can not stop learning? Just because you hit a few keyboard, over there click the mouse, the results can be displayed immediately, to the joy, wrong to modify and then run, and directly have fast.

in skill training, the more ways to get quick feedback, the faster the skill acquisition will be. For example, if you want to practise speaking skills, there are a number of ways you can get to know what you are saying and how it works by practicing in a mirror, making friends or family your audience, using a mobile phone with a tripod to record a video, recording with a recording pen, and so on. If you use Pepper or a live broadcast, you don't even have to finish to receive feedback from others.

9. Timed Training

Beginners a new skill, will encounter a lot of problems, every difficulty will make you feel the time is like a snail crawl, slow, which often let you overestimate the actual time to put into training. Sometimes you only practice for more than 10 minutes, but you may think it is longer than the day.

How to solve this problem? Choshi Kaufman tells us that the best way to do this is to split the timing. Buy a precise countdown timer and set it up for 20 minutes to start practicing. You just have to follow one rule: Once the clock starts, it must not stop halfway.

Is this method familiar? I mentioned in the article and in the speech, "Don't let the phone steal your most of your lifetime," is the tomato working law.

If you can make time every day to do the segmented time training, you will see obvious progress in a short period of time.

10. Quantity and Speed

One of the prerequisites for Choshi Kaufman's rapid acquisition of new skills is the application of new skills to solve a practical problem. So you don't have to be perfect at first, it's very easy to get frustrated-because it's hard for beginners to do it in a short period of time. On the contrary, it is the goal to achieve goals, to ensure that training and training speed is the most should be considered. Practice much, practice fast, to learn quickly, quality can be in your mastery of skills through the initial difficult to consider.

These are the 10 methods, and if you apply them to the skills you're learning, you'll learn better and learn faster.

10 ways to learn effectively

The previous 10 methods of rapid acquisition skills, is to learn skills to prepare a set of methods, but you will find in the study will encounter a variety of problems, such as how to find learning materials, how to find tools, how to overcome difficulties, how to find a way to speed up the mode of learning and so on, some problems will even knock you down.

So, easier is an exclamation point when most people try a set of methods, but if you can follow the Choshi Kaufman in chapter Three to summarize the effective learning of the 10 methods, it will be much easier. These 10 methods are as follows:

1. Collect information
2. Overcome difficulties
3. Correlation analogy
4. Reverse Thinking
5. Consulting and communication
6. Exclude interference
7. Interval repetition
8. Create a stereotype
9. Expected test
10. Respect for physiology

Each method has been unfolded in the book, interested can see.

Practice, practice, practice

In the first three chapters, Choshi Kaufman introduced its methodology, which accounted for only a fraction of the 20-hour, fast-learning skills of the book, with a total of 44 pages. There are more than 240 pages in the back, with a very detailed introduction to the six skills of programming, go, yoga, piano, windsurfing, and blind play, showing the 10 methods of fast acquisition skills and how 10 methods of effective learning are applied in the process of skill acquisition.

No good theory, no practice is a vain. Most people tend to think more and do less, and complain when they meet difficulties. Choshi Kaufman knows this, so it is very detailed about the learning of every skill.

In the case of programming, he speaks very, very carefully about his goal of learning programming, the choice of language, the choice of framework, the choice of tools, and so on, which is almost a perfect reproduction of the learning process of a novice programmer. To what extent is this part meticulous, so to speak, without any BASIC programming beginners can learn to do the same as Choshi Kaufman to complete their own website.

To spit a little, the fifth chapter------------the translation of the Code, especially the part of it, is very bad, I guess the translator must know very little about programming.

It is really inappropriate for me to overlook this point when I was teaching others to learn QT. At that time I always thought how to systematically put what I know to teach each other, and so she played a good foundation, development and application naturally. This is completely upside down and does not conform to the habit of adult learning. Sure enough, later the effect is not good, we shot two scattered.

If I were to teach someone to develop now, it would be something else, and that's what this book brings to me--after reading this book, I have completely reversed my understanding of skill acquisition.

As for the six examples of skill acquisition in the book, I have a little experience to share with you: pay attention to how Choshi Kaufman is combining his methods in learning . If read again did not see (almost impossible, because Choshi Kaufman side write side hint), that read two times, while reading side turn over, contrast, must be able to see. If you read it this way, you will have a deeper understanding of Choshi Kaufman's approach and apply it to your own practice.

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