How To Learn Anything… Fast!
A practitioner’s guide to rapid skill acquisition. Accelerate your learning by deconstructing complex skills, practicing the most important elements first, and removing barriers to deliberate practice. What do you want to learn?
Updates & Errata
Mistakes happen. This page is for updates about the text in The First 20 Hours. I work to have 99.9999% accuracy in my manuscripts - the “gold standard” of reliability many engineering disciplines (like aircraft design) use to measure quality.
In a 70,000 word manuscript, that’s seven errors. If readers find errors in the manuscript, I’ll post them here, and they’ll be corrected in the next printing.
Errata (first printing)
Page 1. “Every day, I come up [with]” - missing “with.”
Page 23. Jackson Pollack should be Jackson Pollock.
Page 94. Production editor error: gem update–system should be gem update --system.
How To Learn Anything… Fast!
A practitioner’s guide to rapid skill acquisition. Accelerate your learning by deconstructing complex skills, practicing the most important elements first, and removing barriers to deliberate practice. What do you want to learn?
About Josh Kaufman
Josh Kaufman is an acclaimed business, learning, and skill acquisition expert. He is the author of two international bestsellers: The Personal MBA and The First 20 Hours. Josh’s research and writing have helped millions of people worldwide learn the fundamentals of modern business.
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