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hi everyone
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two years ago
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my life changed forever
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my wife kelsey and i
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welcomed our daughter leela into the
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world
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now becoming a parent is an amazing
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amazing experience your whole world
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changes
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overnight and all of your priorities
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change immediately so fast
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that it makes it really difficult to
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process
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sometimes
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now
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you also have to learn a tremendous
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amount about being a parent like for
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example
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how to dress your child
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this was new to me i i this is an actual
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outfit i thought this was a good idea
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and even leela knows that it's not a
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good idea
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so there was so much to learn and so
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much craziness all at once
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and to add to the craziness kelsey and i
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both work from home we're entrepreneurs
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we run our own businesses
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so kelsey is a uh
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develops courses online for yoga
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teachers i'm an author and so i'm
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working for home kelsey's working for
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home we have an infant and we're trying
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to to make sure that everything gets
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done that that needs done
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and
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life is really really really busy
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and
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a couple weeks into this amazing
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experience
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when the sleep deprivation
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really kicked in like around week eight
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i had this thought
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and it was the same thought that parents
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across the ages internationally
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everybody has had this thought which is
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i am never going to have free time
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ever again
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and this is
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somebody said it's true yeah it's it's
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not exactly true
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but it feels really really true in that
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moment and this this was really
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disconcerting to me because one of the
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things that i enjoy
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more than anything else is learning new
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things
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getting curious about something and
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diving in and fiddling around and
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learning through trial and error and
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eventually becoming pretty good at
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something
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and
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without this this free time i didn't
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know how i was ever going to do that
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ever again and so
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i'm a big geek i want to keep learning
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things i want to keep growing and so
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what i decided to do was
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go to the library and go to the
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bookstore and look at what research says
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about how we learn and how we learn
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quickly
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and i read a bunch of books i read a
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bunch of websites
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and
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trying to answer this question how long
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does it take
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to acquire a new skill
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you know what i found
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10
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000 hours
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[Music]
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anybody ever heard this
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10 it takes 10 000 hours if you want if
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you want to learn something new if you
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want to be good at it it's going to take
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10 000 hours to get there
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and i read this in book after book and
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website after a website and the
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uh my mental experience of of reading
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all of this stuff was like no
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i don't have time i don't have to i
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don't have 10 000 hours i am never going
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to be able to learn anything new
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ever again
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but that's not true so 10 000 hours just
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to give you a rough order of magnitude
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ten thousand hours is a full-time job
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for five years
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that's a long time and we've all had the
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experience of learning something new and
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it didn't take us anywhere close to that
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amount of time right so what's up
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there's there's something kind of funky
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going on here what the research says and
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and what we expect and have experiences
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they don't match up
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and what i found
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here's the wrinkle
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the ten thousand hour rule came out of
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studies of expert
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level performance
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there was a professor at florida state
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university his name is kay anders
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erickson he's the originator of the ten
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thousand hour rule
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and where that came from is he studied
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professional athletes
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world-class musicians
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chess grand masters all of these ultra
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competitive folks in ultra high
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performing fields
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and he tried to figure out how long does
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it take to get to the top
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of those kinds of fields and what he
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found is the more deliberate practice
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the more time that those individuals
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spent practicing the elements whatever
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it is that they do
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the more time you spend the better you
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get and the folks at the tippy top of
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their fields
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put in around 10 000 hours of practice
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now we're talking about the game of
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telephone a little bit earlier
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here's what happened
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an author by the name of malcolm
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gladwell
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wrote a book
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in 2007 called outliers the story of
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success and the centerpiece of that book
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was the ten thousand hour rule practice
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a lot practice well and you will do
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extremely well you reach the top of your
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field
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so
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the message what dr ander erickson was
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actually saying is
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it takes ten thousand hours to get the
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top of an ultra competitive field in a
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very narrow subject
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that's what that means
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but here's what happened ever since
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outliers came out
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immediately came out reached the top of
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the bestseller list stayed there for
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three solid months
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all of a sudden the ten thousand hour
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rule was
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everywhere
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and a society-wide game of telephone
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started to be played
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so this message it takes ten thousand
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hours to reach the top of an
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ultra-competitive field
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became it takes ten thousand hours to
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become an expert at something
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which became it takes ten thousand hours
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to become
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good at something which became
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it takes ten thousand hours to learn
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something
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but that last statement it takes ten
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thousand hours to learn something
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it's not true
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it's not true
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so
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what the research actually says if i i
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spent a lot of time here at the csu
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library in the cognitive psychology
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stacks because i'm a geek
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and
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when you actually look at the studies of
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skill acquisition you see over and over
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and over
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a graph like this now researchers
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whether they're studying a motor skill
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uh something you do physically or a
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mental skill
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they like to study things that they can
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time
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because you can quantify that right
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so they'll give research participants a
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a little task something that requires
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physical arrangement or something that
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requires
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learning a little
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uh mental trick
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and they'll time how long a participant
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takes
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to complete the skill
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and here's what this graph says when you
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start so when researchers gave
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participants a task it took them a
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really long time because it was new and
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they were horrible
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with a little bit of practice they get
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better and better and better and that
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early part of practice is really really
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efficient people get good at things
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with just a little bit of practice
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now what's interesting to note is that
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if you know we don't really
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for skills that we want to learn for
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ourselves we don't care so much about
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time right we just care about how good
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we are whatever good happens to me
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so if we re-label performance time to
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how good you are
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the graph flips and you get this famous
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and widely known this is the learning
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curve
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and the story of the learning curve is
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when you start
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you're grossly incompetent and you know
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it right
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with a little bit of practice you get
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really good really quick so that early
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level of improvement is really fast
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and then at a certain point you reach a
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plateau
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and the subsequent gains become
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much harder to get they take more time
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to get now
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my question is
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i want that
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right how long does it take
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from starting something and being
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grossly incompetent and knowing it
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to being reasonably good
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in hopefully a a period of time as
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possible
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so how long does that take here's what
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my research says
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20 hours
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that's it
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you can go from knowing nothing
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about any skill that you can think of
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want to learn a language
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want to learn how to draw
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want to learn how to juggle flaming
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chainsaws
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if you put 20 hours of focused
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deliberate practice into that thing you
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will be astounded astounded
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at how good you are
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20 hours is doable that's about 45
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minutes a day
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for about a month
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even skipping a couple days here and
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there 20 hours isn't that hard to
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accumulate
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now
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there's a method to doing this because
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it's not like you can just start
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fiddling around for about 20 hours and
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expect these massive improvements
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there's a way to practice intelligently
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there's a way to practice efficiently
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that will make sure that you invest
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those 20 hours
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in the most effective way that you
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possibly can
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and here's the method it applies to
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anything
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the first
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is to deconstruct the skill decide
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exactly what you want to be able to do
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when you're done
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and then look into the skill and break
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it down
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into smaller and smaller pieces
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most of the things that we think of as
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skills
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are actually big bundles of skills that
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require all sorts of different things
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the more you can break apart the skill
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the more you're able to decide what are
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the parts of the skill that will
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actually help me get to what i want
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and then you can practice those first
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and if you practice the most important
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things first you'll be able to improve
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your performance in the least amount of
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time possible
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the second is learn enough to
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self-correct
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so
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get three to five resources about what
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it is you're trying to learn could be
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books it could be dvds could be courses
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could be anything
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but
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don't use those as a as a way to
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procrastinate on practice i i know i do
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this right get like 20 books about the
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topics like i'm gonna start learning how
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to program a computer when i complete
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these 20 books no
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that's procrastination what you want to
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do is learn just enough
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that you can actually practice and
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self-correct
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or self-edit
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as you practice
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so the learning becomes a way of getting
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better at noticing when you're making a
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mistake
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and then doing something a little
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different
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the third
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is to remove barriers to practice
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distractions television internet
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all of these things that get in the way
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of you actually sitting down
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and doing the work
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and the more you're able to use just a
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little bit of willpower
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to remove the distractions that are
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keeping you from practicing
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the more likely likely you are to
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actually sit down
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and practice right
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and the fourth is to practice for at
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least 20 hours
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now most skills have what i call a
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frustration barrier you know the grossly
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incompetent knowing it part
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that's really really frustrating we
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don't like to feel stupid
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and feeling stupid is a barrier to us
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actually sitting down and doing the work
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so
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by pre-committing to practicing whatever
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it is that you want to do for at least
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20 hours
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you will be able to overcome that
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initial frustration barrier and stick
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with the practice long enough to
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actually reap the rewards
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all right that's it it's not rocket
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science four
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very simple steps that you can use to
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learn
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anything
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now
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this is easy to talk about in theory
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but it's more fun to talk about in
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practice so one of the things that i've
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wanted to learn how to do for a long
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time
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is play the ukulele
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has anybody seen jake shimabukuro's
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ted talk where he plays the ukulele and
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makes it sound like he's like an ukulele
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god it's it's amazing
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it's like i saw that it's like that is
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so cool it's such a neat instrument i
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would i would really like to learn
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how to play
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and so i decided
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that to test this theory i wanted to uh
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put 20 hours into practicing the ukulele
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and see where we got
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and so
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the first thing
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about playing the ukulele is in order to
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practice
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you have to have one
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right
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so i got an ukulele and
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my my lovely assistant
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thank you sir
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i think i need the uh
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cord here
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it's not just an ukulele it's an
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electric ukulele
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so
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the first couple hours are just like the
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first couple hours of it anything you
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have to get the tools
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that you're using to practice you have
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to make sure that they're available my
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ukulele didn't come with strings
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attached i had to figure out how to put
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those on like that's kind of important
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right
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and learning how to tune and learning
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how to make sure that all of the things
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that need to be done in order to start
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practicing get done right
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now
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one of the things when i was ready to
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actually start practicing
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was i i looked in online databases and
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song books for
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how to play songs and they say okay
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ukuleles you can play more than one
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string at a time so you can play chords
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that's cool you're accompanying yourself
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yay you
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and when i started looking at songs
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i i had i had an ukulele chord book that
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had like hundreds of chords looking at
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this thing like whoa that's intimidating
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but when you look at the actual songs
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you see the same chords over and over
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right
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as it turns out playing the ukulele is
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kind of like doing anything there's a
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very small set of things that are really
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important and techniques that you'll use
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all the time
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and some so
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in most songs you'll use four
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maybe five chords and that's it that's
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the song you don't have to know the
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hundreds
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as long as you know the four
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or the five
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so while i was doing my research i found
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a a wonderful little medley of of pop
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songs by a band
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called axis of awesome
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and
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somebody somebody knows it
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uh and what what axis of awesome says
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is that you can learn or you can play
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pretty much any pop song of the past
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five decades
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uh if you know four chords and those
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chords are g d e minor c
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four chords pump out every pop song
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ever right
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so i thought this is cool i would like
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to play every pop song ever so
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that was the first song i decided to
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learn and i would like to actually uh
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share it with you ready
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just a small town girl
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living in a lonely world
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she took the midnight train going
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anywhere
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i heard that you
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settled down that you
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found the girl that you're
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married now
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every night in my dreams i see you
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i feel you that is how i know will
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go on
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i won't hesitate no more no more it's
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cannot wait i'm yours cause you were
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amazing
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we did amazing things if i could than i
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would
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go wherever you will and can
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you feel the love
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tonight
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and live
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with or without you
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when i find myself finding myself in
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times of trouble mother mary comes to me
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sometimes i feel like i don't have a
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partner
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no woman no cry i mama the showy is a
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dream i come from a london under
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once a jolly swag man camped by a
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billabong hey i just met you and this is
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crazy
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now here's my number so call me hey
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sexy ladies
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gangnam
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style say goodbye
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closing time
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every new beginning comes from some
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other beginnings
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[Music]
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thank you
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i love that song
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and uh i have a secret to share with you
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uh so by playing that song for you
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i just hit my 20th hour of practicing
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the ukulele
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and so it's amazing pretty much anything
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that you can think of
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what do you want to do
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the major barrier to learning something
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new is not intellectual
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it's not
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the process of you learning a bunch of
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little tips or tricks or things the
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major barrier's emotional
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we're scared
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feeling stupid doesn't feel good in the
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beginning of learning anything new you
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feel really stupid
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so the major barrier is not intellectual
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it's emotional
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but
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put 20 hours into anything
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it doesn't matter what do you want to
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learn
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you want to learn a language
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and learn how to cook
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you want to learn how to draw
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what turns you on what lights you up
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go out and do that thing
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it only takes 20 hours
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have fun
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great job
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