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A review by jahangeer
The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything...Fast by Josh Kaufman
4.0
A decent read, although not as good as his other book The personal MBA, which is one of my favorite..
The book is basically based on simple practical techniques and principal, which enables us to learn any skills very quickly, the good part is that the other has himself tried those techniques, and learned 5 to 6 new skills, which he also illustrate on the book that how he learned those skills in less than 20 hours, following were those skills
1. Programming
2. Touch typing
3. Go game
4. Wind surfing
5. Ukelele
Downside of this is that I think the author has exaggerated the book, because the techniques that he thought were very sound and sold, only one example would have been enough for the sake of illustration, and with this the book would have been easily under 100 pages.. then I would have rated it 5/5.
Having said this, I still rate the book very high, because it is very practical one, Josh kaufmann is by the way a brilliant writer, his story telling and writing skills are just sublime.
The book is basically based on simple practical techniques and principal, which enables us to learn any skills very quickly, the good part is that the other has himself tried those techniques, and learned 5 to 6 new skills, which he also illustrate on the book that how he learned those skills in less than 20 hours, following were those skills
1. Programming
2. Touch typing
3. Go game
4. Wind surfing
5. Ukelele
Downside of this is that I think the author has exaggerated the book, because the techniques that he thought were very sound and sold, only one example would have been enough for the sake of illustration, and with this the book would have been easily under 100 pages.. then I would have rated it 5/5.
Having said this, I still rate the book very high, because it is very practical one, Josh kaufmann is by the way a brilliant writer, his story telling and writing skills are just sublime.