How to Kickstart Your Skill Learning Journey Like a Pro

Learn skills in 15 to 20 hours

Danny Forest
The Startup
Published in
10 min readMay 13, 2019

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A lot of people think skill learning goes like this:

or like this:

The first one is completely wrong.

The second one is closer to reality and probably the most widely accepted, but it’s also wrong. This is just a perception of our learning and is actually quite demoralizing, because the reality is more like this:

You’ll reach what people call “plateaus” on a regular basis during your skill development process. Most people stop around that time, thinking that they’ve reached their limit.

The truth is, limits are all in our heads. We can do so much more than we think we can. We see the limits pushed all the time in sports or athletics. Once someone beats a record, suddenly…

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Danny Forest
The Startup

Polymath. Life Optimizer. Learner. Entrepreneur. Engineer. Writer.