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You just need 20 hours to learn anything! ⏱️
No you don’t need to be a superhuman for this
Need to learn a new programming framework for your new project or trying to learn to play the piano or learning how to solve a rubix cube. Learning doesn’t need to be hard and it shouldn’t take us forever to learn these things.
What if I told you, you don’t need to spend 6 months or even an year grinding to try and learn something new. You’re life could be easier saved by just giving yourself 20 hours of focused effort.
Since a lot of you will be aware about the 10,000 hour rule, it is better to address the problem with it.
Malcolm Gladwell and the 10,000 hours rule
There is a famous rule that you may have heard a lot whenever someone is talking about learning anything, it’s called the 10,000 hours rule. The rule is famously mentioned by author Malcolm Gladwell in his book, Outliers: The Story of Success.
The book emphasized the fact that a person needs at least 10,000 hours of deliberate practice to become an expert at anything.
This means considering a person spends at least 5 hours every day to learn anything new, it would take a person 10 years!! to become a master of his / her craft.
The book includes examples of Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy (sometimes dubbed as “The Edison of the internet”), Mozart (the famous Austrian composer, widely regarded as a child prodigy during his time), The Beatles (the Popular English rock band), Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Hockey, and soccer players and emphasizes deliberate practice as one of the reasons for their success among other things.
Sometimes misunderstood and wrongly used
Like most things by Gladwell, this topic has been highly insightful, influential, and widely debated among others. One of the reasons for this debate is that people sometimes misunderstand the rule altogether.
Most times people will often use some wrongly altered version of this rule stating that “A person needs 10,000 hours of practice to learn and get…
