Learn New Skills in 15 Hours: The Essential Guide
The most concise yet complete guide on skill development
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22 min readMar 24, 2019
After deliberately learning 40+ news skills in the past 14 months, I uncovered varied ways to make learning new skills enjoyable, useful, and most importantly, life changing.
Here’s the one thing you should know right away: It’s not as scary or as hard as it seems. I’ll show you the best ways I’ve learned to learn new skills, all in this article.
A lot of us learn a bunch of new skills on a regular basis, without thinking much about it. Learning a new skill is very much an activity our brain does “without our consent”.
Table of Contents1. Quick intro: Learning and the brain
2. The Essential Guide
3. What is a skill?
4. 7 reasons for learning new skills
5. 4 Steps to learn new skills in under 20 hours
6. Should I aim for mastery?
7. Where do I take it from there?
8. Conclusion
9. Appendix A: Examples
10. Appendix B: Resources
Quick intro: learning and the brain
