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WHY WE GET FRUSTRATED AND HOW TO DEAL WITH IT

WHY WE GET FRUSTRATED AND HOW TO COPE WITH IT

When you try to ignore how you feel about a particular situation, or a person’s behavior or anything, it can not only make you feel worse about it, but it can also cause you to feel frustrated. Your frustrations are important because they indicate that you are being held back by limitations, habits and self-imposed barriers. You feel worried, in a hurry and out of control when something is not “going well”. You are the reason why you are feeling frustrated, and only you can break free from this cycle.
Keep in mind that before you will learn how to overcome your moments of frustration, you need to become aware of the early warning signs of frustration. The earlier you take control of your feeling of frustration, the better off you will be in the long-run.

The importance and benefits of your frustration

The feeling of frustration it comes when you are not satisfying your needs, desires or wants through your own efforts and actions. But frustrations can also have some benefits and a positive impact on your life because if you feel frustrated, it means that you still have the motivation that you need to figure things out and you are still trying to solve your problem and not abandon it.

The feeling of frustration can also help your imagination and sense because when you are not happy about your circumstances, you still feel determined to get things done and this helps you to wake up your senses and spot something you might have missed. You get more creatively about the situation you are facing, and you turn into a problem solver.

Frustrated? Manage your frustration

When you try to manage your feelings of frustration, it is absolutely critical for you that you stay positive and proactive through this process. Do not fall into the trap of depression and feeling sorry for yourself. Feeling sorry for yourself will deny you the opportunity to get through this frustration with success. Instead, look for ways of how you can successfully manage your frustrations to make them work for you, rather than against you.

Here is a process of 3 steps that will help to better manage your frustrations on a daily basis:

Step 1: Notice the Early Signs

The first step, of course, is to identify the early signs and triggers of your frustration. What kinds of feelings are coming up to you? Are there any goals you haven’t accomplished? Or a relationship you are not good at? Skills you would like to learn but you don’t have time to? Projects that you have procrastinated on? A task that isn’t getting done? Whatever it is, these feeling are the signal that you have expectations that you aren’t meeting.

We all have these kinds of expectations. But we need to immediately begin to work through them and help ourselves to better manage the emotion of frustration.

Step 2: Focus on the Important Things

When you feel frustrated, it is absolutely important for you to take control on how and where you focus your mind. You can focus on the things that will help you to get through this problem with success, or you can focus on things that will keep you frustrated and trapped in the problem.

Focus on solutions that will help you to move forward. Focus on what is it that you want to achieve and have. Focusing on the important things and having clarified what you want will help you to dig yourself out of these frustrating moments.

Step 3: Learn to Handle Frustration on a Long-Term

Frustration is a part of your life. You might not get frustrated today. But sooner or later something won’t go as expected and you will experience the feeling of frustration. And that is the moment that you must prepare for.

Frustration can be sometimes overwhelming so find ways to relax, to improve your organization skills. Relaxation doesn’t mean that you are ignoring your problems. Relaxation actually allows you to separate yourself from frustration to clear your mind.

How To Learn Anything You Want In Just 20 Hours

Have you ever heard that you need 10.000 hours to achieve mastery in a field? This concept was introduced by Anders Ericsson, a Professor of Psychology at Florida State University, and was popularized by Malcolm Gladwell in his popular book “Outliers“. The book was so successful that this concept was replicated through various media, and has been quoted as the time needed to really learn something ever since.

But, how is that possible? I mean, 10.000 hours equal to a full-time job for approximately 5 years, and none of us ever needed that much time to learn something new. There is obviously something going wrong here.

Due to the popularity this concept has gathered, it was ‘forgotten’ that the 10.000-hour rule is based on ultra-competitive performers on their respective fields, like chess grandmasters or professional athletes. It was never meant to be an equivalent to learning something new, or even becoming good at it.

Well, then, how much time is really needed to learn something new? In his best-selling book “The First 20 Hours: How To Learn Anything… FAST!“, Josh Kaufman supports that 20 hours are all you need. By completing just 20 hours of deliberate practice, you can go from knowing absolutely nothing to being noticeably good in the subject at hand.

Now, how is THAT possible? I mean 10.000 hours seem really a lot, but 20 hours seems like a REALLY low number. The answer lies in the learning curve, illustrated below. The learning curve shows that the most massive improvements happen in the early stages of learning. It is therefore there that we can put our focus on, and 20 hours can actually be enough.

Learning Curve Chart by Josh Kaufman. Source: Josh Kaufman’s TED talk, which you can watch at the end of this post.

It is obvious, though, that just jumping into learning without any plans or techniques won’t be adequate. If you want to learn something new in 20 hours, it’s possible and tested, but you need to follow a few simple steps. As Josh Kaufman says:

There’s a way to practice intelligently. There’s a way to practice efficiently, that will make sure that you invest those 20 hours in the most effective way that you possibly can.

Foundation

Before diving into the exact process, there are some foundational concepts that can and will help you in this process. To begin with, choose to learn something that you like. You might have wanted to learn how to dance or how to play the guitar your whole life. Choose the subject that makes you click.

You should also try to learn one thing at a time. While it is possible to do more, assuming your life is busy in some way, it’s best to have your brain working on one task during its diffuse moments.

And, finally, you had better wrap your head around the fact that this is possible! Josh Kaufman, in his book, illustrates how he applied the 20 hours rule to learning web development, how to play the ukulele, practice yoga, relearn touch typing, windsurfing and Go, an old, very complex, board game. Many have replicated his process, and so can you.

1. Deconstruction

The first step is to deconstruct the skill. As soon as you get to pick your target performance level (an important step), it’s time to start researching. Don’t overdo it though. Your goal is to identify the smaller skills that comprise the whole subject you are trying to learn. It’s not to learn everything there is about it.

The goal here is to break the skill apart as much as possible, in order to identify the most important items you need to tackle first. The more crucial the things you practice are, the least amount of time you will need to improve.

In this metalearning book disguised as a cookbook, “The 4-Hour Chef“, Tim Ferriss describes deconstruction using the question:

How do I break this ‘amorphous’ skill into small, manageable pieces?

To achieve that, he offers 4 tools in the book:

2. Learn enough to self-correct

We often pick up a substantial amount of reading material, and “commit” to finishing it all before getting to practice. This habit, especially in accelerated learning, is just another form of procrastination.

What you need to do is to learn just enough that will allow you to get to practice as fast as possible. The goal is to be able to correct yourself as you go, constantly correcting your course.

To achieve that, first absorb knowledge through a few (3-5) sources, selected utilizing the 80/20 rule. Those could be books, videos, courses, or anything for that matter. Then try to associate the information with preexisting knowledge and mental models (find out more about this in my article on chunking). The next step is to jump into practice, as fast as possible.

There also exist ways to externally provide that correction and feedback, effectively creating fast feedback loops. Practicing in the presence of a mentor, or using an app that will give you immediate feedback on whatever it is you are practicing are just 2 of the existing techniques.

3. Remove practice barriers

This mainly involves all the potential distractions, like tv, cellphone or internet. Even if you have the best intentions, cues to procrastination will arise. You should make your best efforts to prevent that from taking you off course. Read my article on how to beat procrastination to find out how to achieve this.

4. Practice at least 20 hours

Well, the 4th step is to actually put in the 20 hours of practice time. It is best to devote 40-45 minutes per day for a month, allowing your diffuse mode of thinking to continuously enhance your comprehension. An effective strategy is to allocate the 45 daily minutes ahead of time for the whole month, reducing the chance of you resorting to excuses.

Separating your learning like this allows for continuous corrections in your process, and lets you consistently speed up the effectiveness of your practice. It also allows you to space out your learning repetitions, which is one of the fundamental techniques in accelerated learning.

Getting over the frustration barrier

Most skills have what Josh Kaufman calls a “frustration barrier”. We humans really hate to feel stupid, and that is actually one of the largest barriers to actually sitting down and doing the work. By devoting these 20 hours, following the steps above, you not only will get past this “frustration barrier”, but will also build a solid foundation on the skill to expand upon in the future.

So, what are YOU going to learn?

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While mastery is a whole other topic, these 20 hours of deliberate practice will get you from knowing nothing to being good at your subject. I’d love to learn more about your achievements and/or struggles you faced in the process. Post on the Facebook group, or contact me directly!

Josh Kaufman’s TED Talk

This article is largely based on and inspired by Josh Kaufman, his book “The First 20 Hours: How To Learn Anything… FAST!” and his amazing TED talk, which you can (and should) watch below!

Two year ago, my life changed forever.

My wife Kelsey and I

welcomed our daughter Lela into the world.

Now, becoming a parent is an amazing experience.

Your whole world changes over night.

And all of your priorities change immediately.

So fast that it makes it really difficult to process sometimes.

Now, you also have to learn a tremendous amount about being a parent

like, for example, how to dress your child.

This was new to me.

This is an actual outfit, I thought this was a good idea.

And even Lela knows that it’s not a good idea.

So there is so much to learn and so much craziness all at once.

And to add to the craziness, Kelsey and I both work from home,

we’re entrepreneurs, we run our own businesses.

So, Kelsey develops courses online for yoga teachers.

And so, I’m working from home, Kelsey’s working from home.

We have an infant and we’re trying to make sure

that everything gets done that needs done.

And life is really, really busy.

And a couple of weeks into this amazing experience,

when the sleep deprivation really kicked in,

like around week eight,

I had this thought, and it was the same thought

that parents across the ages, internationally,

everybody has had this thought, which is:

I am never going to have free time ever again.

Somebody said it’s true.

It’s not exactly true,

but it feels really, really true in that moment.

And this was really disconcerning to me,

because one of the things that I enjoy

more than anything else is learning new things.

Getting curious about something and diving in

and fiddling around and learning through trial and error.

And eventually becoming pretty good at something.

And without this free time,

I didn’t know how I was ever going to do that ever again.

And so, I’m a big geek,

I want to keep learning things, I want to keep growing.

And so what I’ve decided to do was,

go to the library, and go to the bookstore,

and look at what research says about

how we learn and how we learn quickly.

And I read a bunch of books, I read a bunch of websites.

And tried to answer this question,

how long does it take to acquire a new skill?

You know what I found?

Anybody ever heard this?

It takes 10,000 hours.

If you want to learn something new, 3:14

if you want to be good at it,

it’s going to take 10,000 hours to get there.

And I read this in book after book, in website after website.

And my mental experience of reading all of this stuff was like:

I don’t have time!

I don’t have 10,000 hours. 3:34

I am never going to be able to learn anything new.

But that’s not true.

So, 10,000 hours, just to give you a rough order of magnitude,

10,000 hours is a full-time job for five years.

That’s a long time.

And we’ve all had the experience of learning something new,

and it didn’t take us anywhere close to that amount of time, right?

There’s something kinda funky going on here. 4:03

What the research says and what we expect, and have experiences,

they don’t match up.

And what I found, here’s the wrinkle:

The 10,000 hour rule came out of studies of expert-level performance.

There’s a professor at Florida State University,

his name is K. Anders Ericsson.

He is the originator of the 10,00 hour rule.

And where that came from is, he studied professional athletes,

world class musicians, chess grand masters.

All of this ultra competitive folks in ultra-high performing fields.

And he tried to figure out how long does it take

to get to the top of those kinds of fields.

And what he found is, the more deliberate practice,

the more time that those individuals spend

practicing the elements of whatever it is that they do,

the more time you spend, the better you get.

And the folks at the tippy top of their fields

put in around 10,000 hours of practice.

Now, we were talking about the game of telephone a little bit earlier.

Here’s what happened:

an author by the name of Malcolm Gladwell

wrote a book in 2007 called «Outliers: The Story of Success»,

and the central piece of that book was the 10,000 hour rule.

Practice a lot, practice well, and you will do extremely well,

you will reach the top of your field.

what Dr. Ericsson was actually saying is,

it takes 10,000 hours to get at the top of an ultra competitive field

in a very narrow subject, that’s what that means.

But here’s what happened: ever since Outliers came out,

immediately came out, reached the top of best seller lists,

stayed there for three solid months.

All of a sudden the 10,000 hour rule was everywhere.

And a society-wide game of telephone started to be played.

So this message, it takes 10,000 hours to reach the top of an ultra competitive field,

became, it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert at something,

it takes 10,000 hours to become good at something,

it takes 10,000 hours to learn something.

But that last statement, it takes 10,000 hours to learn something,

It’s not true. 6:28

I spent a lot of time here at the CSU library

in the cognitive psychology stacks ’cause I’m a geek.

And when you actually look at the studies of skill acquisition,

you see over and over a graph like this.

Now, researchers, whether they’re studying a motor skill,

something you do physically or a mental skill,

they like to study things that they can time.

‘Cause you can quantify that, right?

So, they’ll give research participants a little task,

something that requires physical arrangement,

or something that requires learning a little mental trick,

and they’ll time how long a participant takes to complete the skill.

so when researchers gave participants a task, it took them a really long time,

’cause it was new and they were horrible.

With a little bit of practice, they get better and better and better.

And that early part of practice is really, really efficient.

People get good at things with just a little bit of practice.

Now, what’s interesting to note is that,

for skills that we want to learn for ourselves,

we don’t care so much about time, right?

We just care about how good we are, whatever good happens to mean.

So if we relabel performance time to how good you are,

the graph flips, and you get his famous and widely known,

this is the learning curve.

And the story of the learning curve is when you start,

you’re grossly incompetent and you know it, right?

With a little bit of practice, you get really good, really quick.

So that early level of improvement is really fast.

And then at a certain point you reach a plateau,

and the subsequent games become much harder to get,

they take more time to get.

Now, my question is, I want that, right?

How long does it take from starting something

and being grossly incompetent and knowing it

to being reasonably good?

In hopefully, as short a period of time as possible.

So, how long does that take?

Here’s what my research says: 20 hours.

You can go from knowing nothing 8:53

about any skill that you can think of.

Want to learn a language?

Want to learn how to draw?

Want to learn how to juggle flaming chainsaws?

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 skipping a couple days, here and there.

20 hours isn’t that hard to accumulate.

Now, there’s a method to doing this.

Because it’s not like you can just start fiddling around for about 20 hours

and expect these massive improvements.

There’s a way to practice intelligently.

There’s 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’s the method, it applies to anything:

The first is to deconstruct the skill.

Decide exactly what you want to be able to do when you’re done,

and then look into the skill and break it down into smaller pieces.

Most of the things that we think of as skills

are actually big bundles of skills that require all sorts of different things.

The more you can break apart the skill,

the more you’re able to decide,

what are the parts of this skill that would actually help me

get to what I want?

And then you can practice those first.

And if you practice the most important things first,

you’ll be able to improve your performance

in the least amount of time possible.

The second is, learn enough to self correct.

So, get three to five resources about what it is you’re trying to learn.

Could be book, could be DVDs, could be courses, could be anything.

But don’t use those as a way to procrastinate on practice.

I know I do this, right?

Get like 20 books about the topic, like,

«I’m going to start learning how to program a computer

when I complete these 20 books».

That’s procrastination. 11:00

What you want to do is 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’re making a mistake

and then doing something a little different.

The third is to remove barriers to practice.

Distractions, television, internet.

All of these things that get in the way

of you actually sitting down and doing the work.

And the more you’re able to use just a little bit of willpower

to remove the distractions that are keeping you from practicing,

the more likely you are to actually sit down and practice, right?

And the fourth is to practice for at least 20 hours.

Now, most skills have what I call a frustration barrier.

You know, the grossly-incompetent- and-knowing-it part?

That’s really, really frustrating.

We don’t like to feel stupid. 12:02

And feeling stupid is a barrier to us actually sitting down and doing the work.

So, by pre-committing to practicing whatever it is that you want to do

for at least 20 hours,

you will be able to overcome that initial frustration barrier

and stick with the practice long enough to actually reap the rewards.

It’s not rocket science. 12:25

Four very simple steps that you can use to learn anything.

Now, this is easy to talk about in theory,

but it’s more fun to talk about in practice.

So one of the things that I’ve wanted to learn how to do for a long time

is play the ukulele.

Has anybody seen Jake Shimabukuro’s TEDTalk

he’s like a ukulele god.

I saw it, I was like, «That is so cool!

It’s such a neat instrument.

I would really like to learn how to play. 13:01

And so I decided that to test this theory

I wanted to put 20 hours into practicing ukulele

and see where it got.

And so the first thing about playing the ukulele is,

in order to practice, you have to have one, right?

I think I need the chord here. 13:31

It’s not just an ukulele, it’s an electric ukulele.

So, the first couple hours are just like the first couple hours of anything.

You have to get the tools that you are using to practice.

You have to make sure they’re available.

My ukulele didn’t come with strings attached.

I had to figure out how to put those on.

Like, that’s kind of important, right?

And learning how to tune, learning how to make sure

that all of the things that need to be done

in order to start practicing get done, right?

Now, one of the things when I was ready to actually start practicing

was I looked in online databases and songbooks for how to play songs.

And they say, okay, ukuleles, you can play more than one string at a time,

so you can play chords, that’s cool,

you are accompanying yourself, yay you.

And when I started looking at songs,

I had an ukulele chord book that had like hundreds of chords.

Looking at this and «Wow, that’s intimidating».

But when you look at the actual songs,

you see the same chords over and over, right?

As it turns out, playing the ukulele is kind of like doing anything,

There’s a very small set of things that are really important

and techniques that you’ll use all the time.

And in most songs you’ll use four, maybe five chords,

and that’s it, that’s the song.

You don’t have to know hundreds, as long as you know the four or the five.

So, while I was doing my research,

I found a wonderful little medley of pop songs

by a band called Axis of Awesome.

— Somebody knows it.

And what Axis of Awesome says is that you can learn,

or you can play pretty much any pop song of the past five decades,

if you know four chords,

and those chords are G, D, Em and C.

Four chords pump out every pop song ever, right?

So I thought, this is cool!

I would like to play every pop song ever.

So, that was the first song I decided to learn,

and I would like to actually share it with you.

(Singing) Just a small town girl,

living in a lonely world,

she took the midnight train going anywhere.

I heard that you settled down, (Laughter)

that you found a girl,

that you’re married now.

Every night in my dreams (Laughter)

I see you, I feel you,

that is how I know you go on.

I won’t hesitate no more, no more.

It cannot wait, I’m yours. 16:42

‘Cause you were amazing, we did amazing things.

Can you feel the love tonight.

I can’t live with or without you.

When I find myself in times of trouble, mother Mary comes to me,

Sometimes I feel like I don’t have partner.

No woman, no cry. 17:11

Yeah mama, this surely is a dream.

I come from a land down under.

Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong.

Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy, (Laughter)

but here’s my number, so call me

Hey sexy lady, op, op, op, op, oppan gangnam style.

It’s time to say goodbye.

Closing time, every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.

(Singing and music ends) (Applause)

Thank you, thank you.

I love that song.

And I have a secret to share with you.

So, by playing that song for you,

I just hit my twentieth hour of practicing the ukulele.

(Applause) Thank you.

And so it’s amazing, pretty much anything that you can think of,

what do you want to do.

The major barrier to learn something new is not intellectual,

it’s not the process of you learning a bunch of little tips or tricks or things.

The major barrier’s emotional.

We’re scared. 18:44

Feeling stupid doesn’t feel good,

in the beginning of learning anything new

you feel really stupid.

So the major barrier’s not intellectual, it’s emotional.

But put 20 hours into anything.

It doesn’t matter.

What do you want to learn? 19:01

Do you want to learn a language?

Want to learn how to cook? 19:04

Want to learn how to draw?

What turns you on?

What lights you up? 19:10

Go out and do that thing.

It only takes 20 hours. 19:14

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Salut à tous. 안녕 모두.

Two year ago, my life changed forever.

My wife Kelsey and I

welcomed our daughter Lela into the world.

a accueilli notre fille Lela dans le monde.

Now, becoming a parent is an amazing experience.

Devenir parent est une expérience incroyable.

Your whole world changes over night.

Votre monde entier change au cours de la nuit.

And all of your priorities change immediately.

So fast that it makes it really difficult to process sometimes.

Настолько быстро, что иногда это действительно затрудняет обработку.

Now, you also have to learn a tremendous amount about being a parent

Maintenant, vous devez aussi apprendre énormément sur le rôle de parent

like, for example, how to dress your child.

This was new to me.

This is an actual outfit, I thought this was a good idea.

Это настоящий наряд, я подумал, что это хорошая идея.

And even Lela knows that it’s not a good idea.

So there is so much to learn and so much craziness all at once.

Так что есть чему поучиться и столько безумия одновременно.

And to add to the craziness, Kelsey and I both work from home,

И чтобы добавить к сумасшествию, мы с Келси работаем из дома,

we’re entrepreneurs, we run our own businesses.

nous sommes des entrepreneurs, nous gérons nos propres entreprises.

So, Kelsey develops courses online for yoga teachers.

Kelsey développe donc des cours en ligne pour les professeurs de yoga.

And so, I’m working from home, Kelsey’s working from home.

We have an infant and we’re trying to make sure

У нас є немовля, і ми намагаємось у цьому переконатися

that everything gets done that needs done.

что делается все, что нужно. що все робиться, що потрібно робити.

And life is really, really busy.

Et la vie est vraiment très occupée. І життя справді дуже напружене.

And a couple of weeks into this amazing experience,

Et quelques semaines dans cette expérience incroyable, І через пару тижнів цього дивовижного досвіду,

when the sleep deprivation really kicked in,

коли недосип справді почався,

like around week eight,

як близько восьмого тижня,

I had this thought, and it was the same thought

У мене була така думка, і це була та сама думка

that parents across the ages, internationally,

що батьки протягом багатьох віків, на міжнародному рівні,

everybody has had this thought, which is:

у всіх була така думка, яка:

I am never going to have free time ever again.

Я більше ніколи не матиму вільного часу.

Somebody said it’s true.

Хтось сказав, що це правда.

It’s not exactly true,

Це не зовсім так,

but it feels really, really true in that moment.

але це відчуває справді, справді правду в той момент.

And this was really disconcerning to me,

그리고 이것은 정말로 나에 대해 disconcerning이었습니다. І це було для мене дуже сумно,

because one of the things that I enjoy

тому що одна з речей, яка мені подобається

more than anything else is learning new things.

Getting curious about something and diving in

Поцікавившись чимось і занурившись

and fiddling around and learning through trial and error.

і возитися і вчитися методом спроб і помилок.

And eventually becoming pretty good at something.

І врешті-решт стає досить хорошим у чомусь.

And without this free time,

E sem esse tempo livre, І без цього вільного часу,

I didn’t know how I was ever going to do that ever again.

Я не знав, як я коли-небудь буду це робити ще раз.

And so, I’m a big geek,

Отже, я великий гік,

I want to keep learning things, I want to keep growing.

Я хочу продовжувати вчитися речам, я хочу продовжувати рости.

And so what I’ve decided to do was,

І ось що я вирішив зробити,

go to the library, and go to the bookstore,

зайти в бібліотеку і зайти в книгарню,

and look at what research says about

і подивіться, про що говорять дослідження

how we learn and how we learn quickly.

як ми вчимось і як швидко вчимось.

And I read a bunch of books, I read a bunch of websites.

І я прочитав купу книжок, прочитав купу веб-сайтів.

And tried to answer this question,

І спробував відповісти на це питання,

how long does it take to acquire a new skill?

скільки часу потрібно для набуття нової навички?

You know what I found?

Anybody ever heard this?

Хто-небудь коли-небудь чув це?

It takes 10,000 hours.

If you want to learn something new,

if you want to be good at it,

it’s going to take 10,000 hours to get there.

And I read this in book after book, in website after website.

І я читав це в книзі за книгою, в веб-сайті за веб-сайтом.

And my mental experience of reading all of this stuff was like:

І мій психічний досвід читання всього цього був такий:

I don’t have time!

I don’t have 10,000 hours.

I am never going to be able to learn anything new.

Я ніколи не зможу дізнатись нічого нового.

But that’s not true.

Але це неправда.

So, 10,000 hours, just to give you a rough order of magnitude,

Отже, 10 000 годин, просто для того, щоб дати вам приблизний порядок величини,

10,000 hours is a full-time job for five years.

That’s a long time.

And we’ve all had the experience of learning something new,

І ми всі мали досвід вивчення чогось нового,

and it didn’t take us anywhere close to that amount of time, right?

і це не забрало нас десь близько до такої кількості часу, так?

There’s something kinda funky going on here.

Здесь происходит что-то забавное. Тут відбувається щось на зразок фанку.

What the research says and what we expect, and have experiences,

Що говорить дослідження та що ми очікуємо та маємо досвід,

they don’t match up.

eles não combinam. вони не збігаються.

And what I found, here’s the wrinkle:

І що я знайшов, ось зморшка:

The 10,000 hour rule came out of studies of expert-level performance.

A regra das 10.000 horas surgiu de estudos de desempenho em nível de especialista. Правило 10 000 годин вийшло з досліджень ефективності на рівні експертів.

There’s a professor at Florida State University,

his name is K. Anders Ericsson.

He is the originator of the 10,00 hour rule.

Він є засновником правила 10 годин.

And where that came from is, he studied professional athletes,

І звідки це взялося, він навчався професійних спортсменів,

world class musicians, chess grand masters.

музиканти світового класу, шахові великі майстри.

All of this ultra competitive folks in ultra-high performing fields.

Все це ультраконкурентоспроможні люди у надвисокопродуктивних сферах.

And he tried to figure out how long does it take

І він спробував зрозуміти, скільки часу це триває

to get to the top of those kinds of fields.

щоб дістатися до вершини таких полів.

And what he found is, the more deliberate practice,

І те, що він виявив, це більш обдумана практика,

the more time that those individuals spend

тим більше часу витрачають ці особи

practicing the elements of whatever it is that they do,

практикуючи елементи того, що вони роблять,

the more time you spend, the better you get.

чим більше часу ви витрачаєте, тим краще ви стаєте.

And the folks at the tippy top of their fields

І люди, які знаходяться на вершині поля

put in around 10,000 hours of practice.

практикуйте близько 10 000 годин.

Now, we were talking about the game of telephone a little bit earlier.

Зараз ми говорили про телефонну гру трохи раніше.

Here’s what happened:

an author by the name of Malcolm Gladwell

автор на ім’я Малкольм Гладуелл

wrote a book in 2007 called «Outliers: The Story of Success»,

у 2007 році написав книгу «Outliers: The Story of Success»,

and the central piece of that book was the 10,000 hour rule.

і центральним фрагментом цієї книги було правило 10000 годин.

Practice a lot, practice well, and you will do extremely well,

Багато практикуйтесь, добре тренуйтеся, і ви будете робити надзвичайно добре,

you will reach the top of your field.

ви досягнете вершини свого поля.

what Dr. Ericsson was actually saying is,

те, що насправді говорив доктор Ерікссон,

it takes 10,000 hours to get at the top of an ultra competitive field

потрібно 10 000 годин, щоб потрапити на вершину ультраконкурентного поля

in a very narrow subject, that’s what that means.

у дуже вузькій темі, ось що це означає.

But here’s what happened: ever since Outliers came out,

Mas eis o que aconteceu: desde que Outliers saiu, Но вот что произошло: с тех пор, как вышли Outliers, Але ось що трапилося: з тих пір, як вийшли Outliers,

immediately came out, reached the top of best seller lists,

сразу вышел, попал в топ списков бестселлеров, негайно вийшов, потрапив у топ списків бестселерів,

stayed there for three solid months.

пробыл там три месяца подряд. пробув там три солідних місяці.

All of a sudden the 10,000 hour rule was everywhere.

De repente, a regra das 10.000 horas estava por toda parte. Внезапно правило 10 000 часов было повсюду. Раптом правило 10000 годин було скрізь.

And a society-wide game of telephone started to be played.

И началась общественная игра в телефон. І в суспільстві почали грати в телефонну гру.

So this message, it takes 10,000 hours to reach the top of an ultra competitive field,

Итак, это сообщение, чтобы достичь вершины сверхконкурентного поля, нужно 10 000 часов. Отже, це повідомлення вимагає 10 000 годин, щоб досягти вершини надто конкурентного поля,

became, it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert at something,

потрібно 10 000 годин, щоб стати експертом у чомусь,

it takes 10,000 hours to become good at something,

потрібно 10 000 годин, щоб стати в чомусь,

it takes 10,000 hours to learn something.

потрібно 10 000 годин, щоб щось навчитися.

But that last statement, it takes 10,000 hours to learn something,

Але останнє твердження вимагає 10 000 годин, щоб навчитися чомусь,

не відповідає дійсності.

I spent a lot of time here at the CSU library

Я проводив багато часу тут, у бібліотеці ХСС

in the cognitive psychology stacks ’cause I’m a geek.

у стеках когнітивної психології, тому що я вилюдак.

And when you actually look at the studies of skill acquisition,

І коли ви насправді дивитесь на дослідження набуття навичок,

you see over and over a graph like this.

ви бачите знову і знову такий графік.

Now, researchers, whether they’re studying a motor skill,

Тепер дослідники, чи вивчають вони рухову навичку,

something you do physically or a mental skill,

те, що ви робите фізично або розумово,

they like to study things that they can time.

їм подобається вивчати речі, які вони можуть відстежувати.

‘Cause you can quantify that, right?

Потому что ты можешь это количественно выразить, верно? Тому що ти можеш це кількісно визначити, так?

So, they’ll give research participants a little task,

Итак, они дадут участникам исследования небольшое задание, Отже, вони дадуть учасникам дослідження невелике завдання,

something that requires physical arrangement,

щось, що вимагає фізичної домовленості,

or something that requires learning a little mental trick,

або щось, що вимагає вивчення невеликого розумового фокусу,

and they’ll time how long a participant takes to complete the skill.

і вони визначатимуть час, який триває учаснику, щоб досягти навички.

so when researchers gave participants a task, it took them a really long time,

тому, коли дослідники дали учасникам завдання, це зайняло у них дуже багато часу,

’cause it was new and they were horrible.

бо це було нове, і вони були жахливі.

With a little bit of practice, they get better and better and better.

Трохи практики, вони стають все кращими і кращими і кращими.

And that early part of practice is really, really efficient.

І ця рання частина практики є насправді дуже ефективною.

People get good at things with just a little bit of practice.

Люди добре розбираються в справах, лише трохи практикуючись.

Now, what’s interesting to note is that,

Що цікаво зазначити, це те, що

for skills that we want to learn for ourselves,

за навички, які ми хочемо навчитися самі,

we don’t care so much about time, right?

ми не так дбаємо про час, так?

We just care about how good we are, whatever good happens to mean.

Ми просто дбаємо про те, наскільки ми добрі, що б доброго не означало.

So if we relabel performance time to how good you are,

Dus als we prestatietijd herbenoemen naar hoe goed u bent, Отже, якщо ми відносимо час виступу до того, наскільки ти хороший

the graph flips, and you get his famous and widely known,

o gráfico vira, e você conhece o famoso e amplamente conhecido, графік перевертається, і ви отримуєте його відомий і широко відомий,

this is the learning curve.

це крива навчання.

And the story of the learning curve is when you start,

you’re grossly incompetent and you know it, right?

ти вкрай некомпетентний, і ти це знаєш, так?

With a little bit of practice, you get really good, really quick.

Трохи практики, ви отримуєте дуже хороший, дуже швидкий.

So that early level of improvement is really fast.

Отже, ранній рівень вдосконалення дуже швидкий.

And then at a certain point you reach a plateau,

І тоді в певний момент ви досягаєте плато,

and the subsequent games become much harder to get,

а наступні ігри стає набагато важче дістати,

they take more time to get.

їм потрібно більше часу, щоб отримати.

Now, my question is, I want that, right?

Тепер моє запитання: я хочу це, правда?

How long does it take from starting something

Скільки часу потрібно, щоб щось розпочати

and being grossly incompetent and knowing it

і бути вкрай некомпетентним і знати це

to being reasonably good?

бути розумно хорошим?

In hopefully, as short a period of time as possible.

Сподіваємось, якомога коротший проміжок часу.

So, how long does that take?

Отже, скільки часу це займає?

Here’s what my research says: 20 hours.

Ось що говорить моє дослідження: 20 годин.

You can go from knowing nothing

Ви можете піти з того, що нічого не знаєте

about any skill that you can think of.

про будь-яку навичку, яку ви можете придумати.

Want to learn a language?

Want to learn how to draw?

Хочете навчитися малювати?

Want to learn how to juggle flaming chainsaws?

Хочете навчитися жонглювати полум’яними бензопилами?

If you put 20 hours of focused deliberate practice into that thing,

Якщо ви вкладете в це 20 годин цілеспрямованої навмисної практики,

you will be astounded.

ти будеш вражений.

Astounded at how good you are.

Здивований, наскільки ти хороший.

20 hours is doable,

that’s about 45 minutes a day for about a month.

це близько 45 хвилин на день протягом приблизно місяця.

Even skipping a couple days, here and there.

Навіть пропускаючи пару днів, тут і там.

20 hours isn’t that hard to accumulate.

20 годин не так важко накопичити.

Now, there’s a method to doing this.

Зараз є спосіб зробити це.

Because it’s not like you can just start fiddling around for about 20 hours

Тому що це не так, як ви можете просто почати возитися близько 20 годин

and expect these massive improvements.

і очікуйте цих значних поліпшень.

There’s a way to practice intelligently.

Є спосіб розумно практикуватися.

There’s a way to practice efficiently,

Є спосіб ефективно практикуватися,

that will make sure that you invest those 20 hours

що гарантує, що ви вкладете ці 20 годин

in the most effective way that you possibly can.

найефективнішим способом, який ви можете.

And here’s the method, it applies to anything:

І ось метод, він застосовується до будь-чого:

The first is to deconstruct the skill.

Decide exactly what you want to be able to do when you’re done,

Точно визначтесь, що ви хочете мати змогу робити, коли закінчите,

and then look into the skill and break it down into smaller pieces.

а потім розгляньте вміння та розкладіть його на менші шматочки.

Most of the things that we think of as skills

Більшість речей, які ми сприймаємо як навички

are actually big bundles of skills that require all sorts of different things.

são, na verdade, grandes conjuntos de habilidades que exigem todo tipo de coisas diferentes. насправді є великими наборами навичок, які вимагають різноманітних речей.

The more you can break apart the skill,

Quanto mais você pode separar a habilidade, Чим більше ви можете розбити вміння,

the more you’re able to decide,

чим більше ти можеш вирішити,

what are the parts of this skill that would actually help me

які частини цієї навички могли б мені насправді допомогти

get to what I want?

дійти до того, що я хочу?

And then you can practice those first.

І тоді ви зможете практикувати перші.

And if you practice the most important things first,

І якщо ви спочатку практикуєте найважливіші речі,

you’ll be able to improve your performance

ви зможете покращити свою ефективність

in the least amount of time possible.

за найменший проміжок часу.

The second is, learn enough to self correct.

So, get three to five resources about what it is you’re trying to learn.

Отож, отримайте від трьох до п’яти ресурсів про те, що саме ви намагаєтесь дізнатись.

Could be book, could be DVDs, could be courses, could be anything.

Це може бути книга, це можуть бути DVD, можуть бути курси, може бути що завгодно.

But don’t use those as a way to procrastinate on practice.

Але не використовуйте їх як спосіб зволікати з практикою.

I know I do this, right?

Я знаю, що роблю це, так?

Get like 20 books about the topic, like,

Отримайте як 20 книг на тему, наприклад,

«I’m going to start learning how to program a computer

when I complete these 20 books».

коли я закінчу ці 20 книг «.

What you want to do is learn just enough

Що ви хочете зробити, це навчитися достатньо

that you can actually practice

що ви можете реально займатися

and self correct or self edit as you practice.

і самостійно виправляти або самостійно редагувати, коли ви практикуєтесь.

So the learning becomes a way of getting better

Тож навчання стає способом покращення

at noticing when you’re making a mistake

помітити, коли ти робиш помилку

and then doing something a little different.

а потім робити щось трохи інше.

The third is to remove barriers to practice.

Distractions, television, internet.

Відволікаючі фактори, телебачення, Інтернет.

All of these things that get in the way

Усі ці речі перешкоджають

of you actually sitting down and doing the work.

ви насправді сідаєте і виконуєте роботу.

And the more you’re able to use just a little bit of willpower

І чим більше ви зможете використовувати лише трохи сили волі

to remove the distractions that are keeping you from practicing,

щоб усунути відволікаючі фактори, які заважають вам займатися,

the more likely you are to actually sit down and practice, right?

тим більша ймовірність того, що ви насправді сядете і потренуєтесь, так?

And the fourth is to practice for at least 20 hours.

Now, most skills have what I call a frustration barrier.

Зараз більшість навичок мають те, що я називаю бар’єром розчарування.

You know, the grossly-incompetent- and-knowing-it part?

Знаєте, грубо некомпетентна та знаюча частина?

That’s really, really frustrating.

Це справді дуже розчаровує.

We don’t like to feel stupid.

Ми не любимо відчувати себе дурними.

And feeling stupid is a barrier to us actually sitting down and doing the work.

І відчувати себе дурним є перешкодою для нас, насправді сидячи і виконуючи роботу.

So, by pre-committing to practicing whatever it is that you want to do

Отже, попередньо зобов’язавшись практикувати все, що ти хочеш робити

for at least 20 hours,

принаймні 20 годин,

you will be able to overcome that initial frustration barrier

você será capaz de superar essa barreira inicial de frustração ви зможете подолати цей початковий бар’єр фрустрації

and stick with the practice long enough to actually reap the rewards.

e mantenha a prática por tempo suficiente para realmente colher os frutos. і дотримуйтесь практики досить довго, щоб насправді отримати плоди.

It’s not rocket science.

Não é ciência de foguetes. Це не ракетобудування.

Four very simple steps that you can use to learn anything.

Чотири дуже простих кроки, за якими можна навчитися чому завгодно.

Now, this is easy to talk about in theory,

Зараз про це легко говорити теоретично,

but it’s more fun to talk about in practice.

але про це веселіше говорити на практиці.

So one of the things that I’ve wanted to learn how to do for a long time

Тож одна з речей, яку я давно хотів навчитися робити

is play the ukulele.

é tocar ukulele. це грати на укулеле.

Has anybody seen Jake Shimabukuro’s TEDTalk

Хтось бачив TEDTalk Джейка Сімабукуро

he’s like a ukulele god.

він як бог укулеле.

I saw it, I was like, «That is so cool!

Я це бачив, я був таким: «Це так класно!

It’s such a neat instrument.

É um instrumento tão elegante. Це такий акуратний інструмент.

I would really like to learn how to play.

Я б дуже хотів навчитися грати.

And so I decided that to test this theory

І ось я вирішив це перевірити цю теорію

I wanted to put 20 hours into practicing ukulele

Я хотів витратити 20 годин на заняття укулеле

and see where it got.

і подивіться, куди це дійшло.

And so the first thing about playing the ukulele is,

І тому перше, що стосується гри на укулеле, це,

in order to practice, you have to have one, right?

для того, щоб займатися, ти повинен мати його, так?

I think I need the chord here.

Думаю, мені потрібен акорд тут.

It’s not just an ukulele, it’s an electric ukulele.

Це не просто укулеле, це електричне укулеле.

So, the first couple hours are just like the first couple hours of anything.

Отже, перші пару годин точно так само, як перші пару годин будь-чого.

You have to get the tools that you are using to practice.

Ви повинні отримати інструменти, якими ви користуєтеся на практиці.

You have to make sure they’re available.

Ви повинні переконатися, що вони доступні.

My ukulele didn’t come with strings attached.

У моє укулеле не було прикріплених струн.

I had to figure out how to put those on.

Мені довелося зрозуміти, як їх надіти.

Like, that’s kind of important, right?

Мовляв, це якось важливо, правда?

And learning how to tune, learning how to make sure

І навчитися налаштовувати, навчившись переконатися

that all of the things that need to be done

що всі речі, які потрібно зробити

in order to start practicing get done, right?

для того, щоб почати займатися, займайся, так?

Now, one of the things when I was ready to actually start practicing

Тепер одна з речей, коли я був готовий фактично почати займатися

was I looked in online databases and songbooks for how to play songs.

я шукав у онлайн-базах даних та підручниках, як грати пісні.

And they say, okay, ukuleles, you can play more than one string at a time,

І вони кажуть: гаразд, укулелес, ти можеш грати більше, ніж одну струну за раз,

so you can play chords, that’s cool,

щоб ви могли грати на акордах, це круто,

you are accompanying yourself, yay you.

ти супроводжуєш себе, так ти.

And when I started looking at songs,

І коли я почав розглядати пісні,

I had an ukulele chord book that had like hundreds of chords.

У мене була книга акордів укулеле, яка мала як сотні акордів.

Looking at this and «Wow, that’s intimidating».

Дивлячись на це і «Ого, це залякує».

But when you look at the actual songs,

Але коли ви дивитесь на фактичні пісні,

you see the same chords over and over, right?

ви бачите однакові акорди знову і знову, так?

As it turns out, playing the ukulele is kind of like doing anything,

There’s a very small set of things that are really important

Існує дуже малий набір речей, які дійсно важливі

and techniques that you’ll use all the time.

і техніки, якими ви будете користуватися весь час.

And in most songs you’ll use four, maybe five chords,

E na maioria das músicas você usa quatro, talvez cinco acordes, І в більшості пісень ви будете використовувати чотири, може, п’ять акордів,

and that’s it, that’s the song.

і все, ось пісня.

You don’t have to know hundreds, as long as you know the four or the five.

Вам не потрібно знати сотні, якщо ви знаєте чотири або п’ять.

So, while I was doing my research,

Отже, поки я проводив дослідження,

I found a wonderful little medley of pop songs

Я знайшов чудовий маленький поп-пісень

by a band called Axis of Awesome.

гуртом під назвою Axis of Awesome.

— Somebody knows it.

And what Axis of Awesome says is that you can learn,

І що «Axis of Awesome» говорить про те, що ви можете вчитися,

or you can play pretty much any pop song of the past five decades,

або ви можете грати майже будь-яку поп-пісню за останні п’ять десятиліть,

if you know four chords,

якщо ви знаєте чотири акорди,

and those chords are G, D, Em and C.

Four chords pump out every pop song ever, right?

Чотири акорди викачують кожну естрадну пісню, правда?

So I thought, this is cool!

I would like to play every pop song ever.

So, that was the first song I decided to learn,

Отже, це була перша пісня, яку я вирішив вивчити,

and I would like to actually share it with you.

і я хотів би ділитися цим з вами.

(Singing) Just a small town girl,

(Співає) Просто дівчина містечка,

living in a lonely world,

живучи в самотньому світі,

she took the midnight train going anywhere.

вона сіла опівнічним поїздом, який їхав куди завгодно.

I heard that you settled down, (Laughter)

Я чув, що ти влаштувався, (сміх)

that you found a girl,

що ти знайшов дівчину,

that you’re married now.

що ти одружений зараз.

Every night in my dreams (Laughter)

Кожну ніч у своїх мріях (Сміх)

I see you, I feel you,

that is how I know you go on.

так я знаю, що ти продовжуєш.

I won’t hesitate no more, no more.

Я не буду вагатись більше, не більше.

It cannot wait, I’m yours.

Це не може чекати, я твій.

‘Cause you were amazing, we did amazing things.

Тому що ти був дивовижний, ми робили дивовижні речі.

Can you feel the love tonight.

Ви можете відчути любов сьогодні ввечері.

I can’t live with or without you.

When I find myself in times of trouble, mother Mary comes to me,

Коли я опиняюся в біді, мати Мері приходить до мене,

Sometimes I feel like I don’t have partner.

Іноді я відчуваю, що у мене немає партнера.

No woman, no cry.

Ні, жінко, не плач.

Yeah mama, this surely is a dream.

Так, мамо, це, безумовно, мрія.

I come from a land down under.

Я походжу з краю, що внизу

Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong.

Ooit een vrolijke swagman die kampeerde bij een billabong. Одного разу веселий свагмен, який отаборився біля білабонга.

Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy, (Laughter)

Гей, я щойно з тобою познайомився, і це божевільно, (сміх)

but here’s my number, so call me

але ось мій номер, тож телефонуйте мені

Hey sexy lady, op, op, op, op, oppan gangnam style.

It’s time to say goodbye.

Closing time, every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.

Час закриття, кожен новий початок походить від кінця іншого початку.

(Singing and music ends) (Applause)

Thank you, thank you.

I love that song.

And I have a secret to share with you.

І я маю з вами поділитися секретом.

So, by playing that song for you,

I just hit my twentieth hour of practicing the ukulele.

Я щойно досяг своєї двадцятої години занять укулеле.

(Applause) Thank you.

And so it’s amazing, pretty much anything that you can think of,

І це дивовижно, майже все, що ви можете придумати,

what do you want to do.

The major barrier to learn something new is not intellectual,

it’s not the process of you learning a bunch of little tips or tricks or things.

não é o processo de você aprender várias dicas, truques ou outras coisas. це не процес, коли ви вивчаєте купу маленьких підказок чи прийомів чи речей.

The major barrier’s emotional.

Feeling stupid doesn’t feel good,

Почуття дурності не відчуває себе добре,

in the beginning of learning anything new

на початку вивчення чогось нового

you feel really stupid.

ти почуваєшся по-справжньому дурним.

So the major barrier’s not intellectual, it’s emotional.

Отже, основний бар’єр не інтелектуальний, а емоційний.