IsaacBuchi:
Hello everyone,
I have put together a piece that could serve as a motivation for those of you contemplating getting newly into the business. But before then, I need to give you update as to what I was busy doing and what you should be expecting soon after this.
UPDATE:
The next piece of content is coming soon after this. Sure! I am putting it together.
So I took some time to take a walk in the market, spoke one-on-one with people selling some items, priced the items so as to get the current pricing. With this current pricing, we will be doing some little realistic calculations in the next post.
You know, before I drop the next write-up on this topic “how much is a bale of used clothes in nigeria” I need to get facts, real-live data so as to give you a realistic calculation. I do not want to give you false data.
Well, I also don’t expect my analysis to be 100% accurate and you shouldn’t expect that either (DISCLAIMER!!!).
Now, we want to talk about how long it takes to learn something New.
Some say: It takes 10,000 hours to learn something.
It’s NOT TRUE!
People get good at things with little bit of practice.
If you look at the study of skill acquisition you are going to see over and over and over a graph like this
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From the graph researchers say that when you start, it takes a long time but with a little bit of practice you get better and better. So people get good at things just with a little bit of practice.
The interesting thing is that for skills we want to learn we don’t care so much about time, we just care about how good we are (whatever good happens to me).
Now, a different researcher used this curve
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So right here, the graph flips. This is the learning curve, the famous and widely known.
The story of the learning curve says that when you start, you are grossly incompetent and you know it. But with a little bit of practice you get really good really quick. So, that early level of improvement is really fast.
My question now is:
How long does it take from starting something and being grossly incompetent (and knowing it) to being reasonably good?
The answer:
Hopefully, a short period of time as possible. 20 hours. That’s it!
The Truth Is: You can go from knowing nothing about any skill that you can think of… want to learn a language, want to learn how to draw, want to learn a business, want to learn the “used clothes in bales" business?
If you put 20 hours of focused deliberate practice into that thing you will be astounded (astounded) at how good you are.
20 hours is doable, that’s about 45 minutes a day for about a month even with skipping a couple of days here and there. 20 hours isn’t that hard to accumulate.
NOW, there is a method to doing this, it’s not like you can just start fiddling around for about 20 hours and expect this massive improvement. There is a way to practice intelligently, there is a way to practice efficiently that will make sure that you invest those 20 hours in the most effective way that you possibly can.
And here is the method, it applies to anything:
1. Deconstruct the skill: decide exactly what you want to do and then look into the skill and then break it down into smaller pieces. The more you can break apart the skill the more you are able to decide what is the part of the skill that will actually help me get to what I want? And then you can practice those first. If you practice the most important things first you will be able to improve your performance and the least amount of time possible.
2. Learn enough to self-correct: get the resources about what you want to learn, but don’t use those as a way to procrastinate on practice by saying you must finish all the courses before you get started. What you want to do is to learn just enough that you can actually practice and self-correct or self-edit as you practice. So the learning becomes a way of getting better at noticing when you are making a mistake and then doing something a little different.
3. Remove barriers to practice: all of these things that get in the way of you actually siting down and doing the work. And the more you are able to use just a little bit of will power to remove the distraction keeping you from practicing, the more likely you are to actually sit down and practice.
4. Practice at least 20 hours: most skills have the part called the frustration barrier. You know the “grossly-incompetent-and-knowing-it-part”? That’s really frustrating. We don’t like to feel stupid. And feeling stupid is a barrier to us actually sitting down and doing the work. So by pre-committing to practicing whatever it is you want to do for at least 20 hours you would be able to over-come that initial frustration barrier and stick with the practice long enough to actually reap the rewards.
That’s it, it’s not rocket science.
These are the 4 various step you can use to learn anything. Pretty much anything you can think of…What do you want to do? Anything at all.
The major barrier to learning something new is not intellectual, it’s emotional… we are scared… feeling stupid doesn’t feel good in the beginning of learning anything new.
So the major barrier is not intellectual…it’s emotional…
but put 20 hours in anything
...it doesn’t matter what.
What do you want to learn?
Want to learn a language? Want to learn to cook? Want to learn to draw? Want to learn the “used clothes in bales" business? What do you want, go out and do that thing, it only takes 20 hours.
Have fun!
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