Josh Kaufman

the personwho can adapt and learn the most quickly will be the most successful.

Great opportunities are worthless without skills.

the most rewarding experiences in life almost always require some level of skill

many things aren’t fun until you’re good at them.

Ten thousand hours equals eight hours of deliberate practice every day for approximately three and a half years, with no breaks, no weekends, and no vacations. Assuming a standard 260 working days a year with no distractions, that’s a full-time job for almost five years, assuming you spend 100 percent of that time exerting 100 percent of your energy and effort.

Deliberate practice is the core of skill acquisition. The question is how much deliberate practice is required to reach your goal. Usually, it’s much less than you think.

Rapid skill acquisition is a process—a way of breaking down the skill you’re trying to acquire into the smallest possible parts, identifying which of those parts are most important, then deliberately practicing those elements first.

Deconstructing a skill into the smallest possible subskills;
Learning enough about each subskill to be able to practice intelligently and self-correct during practice;
Removing physical, mental, and emotional barriers that get in the way of practice;
Practicing the most important subskills for at least twenty hours.

The desire for instant gratification is one of the primary reasons people don’t acquire new skills very quickly.

taking considerably less time than it would typically take to learn a skill if you went about the process as most people do: blindly, haphazardly, and inconsistently.