Put In Your 20 Hours

As a person who loves learning, but doesn’t love feeling stupid, I harbor an expensive habit.

Not just expensive cause learning can cost you, but expensive in the emotion it takes to keep going. No one wants to have those bad days where you feel like everything that you are doing is wrong. As a result, I am always on the hunt for new ways to help myself keep on learning.

I was skeptical when I heard that the notorious 10,000 hour rule could be distilled down to 20 hours. That seemed to be a gross misstatement. Being the scientist that I am, I had to see it for myself. To my surprise I found that there are some things that sound like myths that can turn out to be true.

Apparently we have all been gossiping about getting our 10,000 hours and deluded ourselves into believing that was the minimum for success. In fact, learning new things is way more attainable than that. It can happen with just 20 hours. Who knew?

With all the things that I ache to be better at (programming, strategy, data science, running) you can believe that I will be putting this to the test starting now.

Plus, I am happy to see that there are other geeky learning junkies out there looking for ways to get their fix.

It takes on to know one.