A review by apeeks
The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything...Fast by Josh Kaufman

2.0

This short book should be far shorter (if publishers valued the time of readers). You can get all the worthwhile content, and save some hours, by only reading/listening to chapters 2, 3, 6, and the afterword. Honestly, you can skip chapter 6 but I felt like it was the only chapter added to the premise outlined in chapter 2. It also felt like the least bloated of the example chapters. The other chapters are filled with unnecessary pages (like the history of Yoga... not why I'm here Mr. Author). Chapter 6 talks about some tips to improve dexterity based or mechanical skills that I have used in the past.

This book is not unique at being unnecessarily bloated. Most books on business or self improvement could be boiled down to a 2-5 page essay that brings the reader the same content. Is there some value here? Sure, if you stick to chapters 2, 3, and, if ambitious, 6.