A brief overview of Josh Kaufman's model of Rapid Skill Acquisition. He claims you can achieve competence in just 20 hours of deliberate practice. His claim is striking when compared to the 10,000 hours that Malcolm Gladwell says is needed to become an expert at anything.

You can't become an expert in 20 hours but you can see noticeable improvement. Remember how much you improved after playing Super Mario Brothers for 20 hours and how unplayable it seemed the first 15 minutes?

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