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3.22 AVERAGE
3.22 AVERAGE
Uno de los mejores libros que he leído en el año, es inpirador leer como alguien tan inteligente hace las cosas, cómo aprende las técnicas y las aplica, espero poder aplicar sus métodos pronto porque también los explica muy bien. Además en cuanto a cultura general explica diferentes asuntos de las cosas que aprendió incrementan la cultura general. Al igual que su libro anterior deja muchos otros que leer y eso es invaluable.
Algunas de las habilidades que me gustaría tomar que eel mostró en este libro son tocar el ukulele, jugar go y cambiar el tipo de teclado, pero deseo aplicar la técnica a mis propias habilidades. Es imperdible.
Algunas de las habilidades que me gustaría tomar que eel mostró en este libro son tocar el ukulele, jugar go y cambiar el tipo de teclado, pero deseo aplicar la técnica a mis propias habilidades. Es imperdible.
When I read the book, I remember getting very motivated. Since I am writing the review more than a year and a half after I read it, I think it's fair to say that what I remember even now is probably what was most impactful about the book. And this biggest takeaway for me was deliberate practice (yes, obviously). Though many people seem to find the book disappointing once it moved to case studies, to me, it served the purpose of "demonstrating" that it is possible to learn new skills to a moderate extent pretty fast. As someone who loves dabbling with many things from music to art to programming, the strategy seems sound enough.
Like many people, I have a ton of skills I would like to learn. In fact, the list is overwhelming. I know I’ll never have the time to tackle even a fraction of them. So I’ve been focusing on the things that interest me the most: blogging, painting, drawing, scrapbooking, card making, journaling, writing, baking. But even that pared down list seems overwhelming. I don’t have 10,000 hours to dedicate to each one of those pursuits. But then again, I also don’t want to become a world-class expert in any of them. I just want to be good — okay, maybe really, really good. So imagine my excitement when I came across this book. I can get really good in just 20 hours? REALLY? Wow. Awesome! Unfortunately, if it seemed that the premise of this book was too good to be true… well, it was. The first couple of chapters are wonderful. The author describes his theories, and they make sense. But after that brief introduction, he goes in depth into his own interests: yoga, programming, windsurfing, etc. I assumed he’d be talking about how he learned these skills, but instead, it’s almost as though he’s trying to teach us those skills. The content is extremely dry, and not helpful at all if you’ve got other skills you have to learn and have no interest at all in, say, learning to play Go. I was very disappointed. Such a great premise - so poorly executed.
Despite getting lost in the programming section, the overall rules and lessons in this book are very useful. A good read full of tips, optimism and structure for rapid skill acquisition. Now to out it in practice.
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I'll have to write a more detailed review in a couple of weeks.
Basically I enjoyed the premise of the book and the author's approach to learning new skills. He spends a lot of time describing the things he is learning (e.g. Ruby programming, Go, ukelele, windsurfing), which is good if you don't know much about the topics.
Basically I enjoyed the premise of the book and the author's approach to learning new skills. He spends a lot of time describing the things he is learning (e.g. Ruby programming, Go, ukelele, windsurfing), which is good if you don't know much about the topics.
Didn't read every page since most of it was anectode. It was okay, kind of inspiring but not life changing I don't think.
The first 3 Chapters are all what you need to go through, I found it very motivating to start right away acquiring any skills that you crave to have!