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Transcriber: Gustavo Rocha Reviewer: Marssi Draw Hi everyone.
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Two year ago, my life changed forever.
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My wife Kelsey and I welcomed our daughter Lela into the world.
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Now, becoming a parent is an amazing experience.
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Your whole world changes over night.
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And all of your priorities change immediately.
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So fast that it makes it really difficult to process sometimes.
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Now, you also have to learn a tremendous amount about being a parent like, for example, how to dress your child.
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(Laughter) This was new to me.
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This is an actual outfit, I thought this was a good idea.
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And even Lela knows that it's not a good idea. (Laughter) So there is so much to learn and so much craziness all at once.
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And to add to the craziness, Kelsey and I both work from home, we're entrepreneurs, we run our own businesses.
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So, Kelsey develops courses online for yoga teachers.
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I'm an author.
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And so, I'm working from home, Kelsey's working from home.
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We have an infant and we're trying to make sure that everything gets done that needs done.
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And life is really, really busy.
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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.
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(Laughter) Somebody said it's true.
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It's not exactly true, but it feels really, really true in that moment.
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And this was really disconcerning to me, because one of the things that I enjoy more than anything else is learning new things.
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Getting curious about something and diving in and fiddling around and learning through trial and error.
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And eventually becoming pretty good at something.
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And without this free time, I didn't know how I was ever going to do that ever again.
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And so, I'm a big geek, I want to keep learning things, I want to keep growing.
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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.
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And I read a bunch of books, I read a bunch of websites.
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And tried to answer this question, how long does it take to acquire a new skill?
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You know what I found?
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10,000 hours!
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Anybody ever heard this?
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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.
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And I read this in book after book, in website after website.
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And my mental experience of reading all of this stuff was like: No!!
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I don't have time! I don't have 10,000 hours.
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I am never going to be able to learn anything new.
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Ever again. (Laughter) But that's not true.
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So, 10,000 hours, just to give you a rough order of magnitude, 10,000 hours is a full-time job for five years.
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That's a long time.
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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?
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So, what's up? There's something kinda funky going on here.
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What the research says and what we expect, and have experiences, they don't match up.
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And what I found, here's the wrinkle: The 10,000 hour rule came out of studies of expert-level performance.
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There's a professor at Florida State University, his name is K. Anders Ericsson.
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He is the originator of the 10,00 hour rule.
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And where that came from is, he studied professional athletes, world class musicians, chess grand masters.
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All of this ultra competitive folks in ultra-high performing fields.
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And he tried to figure out how long does it take to get to the top of those kinds of fields.
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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.
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And the folks at the tippy top of their fields put in around 10,000 hours of practice.
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Now, we were talking about the game of telephone a little bit earlier.
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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.
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Practice a lot, practice well, and you will do extremely well, you will reach the top of your field.
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So, the message, 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.
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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.
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All of a sudden the 10,000 hour rule was everywhere.
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And a society-wide game of telephone started to be played.
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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, which became, it takes 10,000 hours to become good at something, which became, it takes 10,000 hours to learn something.
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But that last statement, it takes 10,000 hours to learn something, is not true. It's not true.
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So, what the research actually says -- I spent a lot of time here at the CSU library in the cognitive psychology stacks 'cause I'm a geek.
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And when you actually look at the studies of skill acquisition, you see over and over a graph like this.
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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.
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'Cause you can quantify that, right?
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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.
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And here's what this graph says, when you start -- so when researchers gave participants a task, it took them a really long time, 'cause it was new and they were horrible.
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With a little bit of practice, they get better and better and better.
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And that early part of practice is really, really efficient.
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People get good at things with just a little bit of practice.
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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?
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We just care about how good we are, whatever good happens to mean.
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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.
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And the story of the learning curve is when you start, you're grossly incompetent and you know it, right?
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(Laughter) With a little bit of practice, you get really good, really quick.
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So that early level of improvement is really fast.
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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.
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Now, my question is, I want that, right?
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How long does it take from starting something and being grossly incompetent and knowing it to being reasonably good?
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In hopefully, as short a period of time as possible.
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So, how long does that take?
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Here's what my research says: 20 hours.
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That's it. You can go from knowing nothing about any skill that you can think of.
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Want to learn a language? Want to learn how to draw?
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Want to learn how to juggle flaming chainsaws?
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(Laughter) If you put 20 hours of focused deliberate practice into that thing, you will be astounded.
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Astounded at how good you are.
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20 hours is doable, that's about 45 minutes a day for about a month.
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Even skipping a couple days, here and there.
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20 hours isn't that hard to accumulate.
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Now, there's a method to doing this.
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Because it's not like you can just start fiddling around for about 20 hours and 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, that will make sure that you invest those 20 hours in the most effective way that you possibly can.
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And here's the method, it applies to anything: The first is to deconstruct the skill.
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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.
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Most of the things that we think of as skills are actually big bundles of skills that require all sorts of different things.
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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?
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And then you can practice those first.
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And if you practice the most important things first, you'll be able to improve your performance in the least amount of time possible.
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The second is, learn enough to self correct.
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So, get three to five resources about what it is you're trying to learn.
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Could be book, could be DVDs, could be courses, could be anything.
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But don't use those as a way to procrastinate on practice.
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I know I do this, right?
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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".
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No. That's procrastination.
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What you want to do is learn just enough that you can actually practice and self correct or self edit as you practice.
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So the learning becomes a way of getting better at noticing when you're making a mistake and then doing something a little different.
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The third 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 of you actually sitting down and doing the work.
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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?
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And the fourth is to practice for at least 20 hours.
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Now, most skills have what I call a frustration barrier.
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You know, the grossly-incompetent- and-knowing-it part?
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That's really, really frustrating. We don't like to feel stupid.
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And feeling stupid is a barrier to us actually sitting down and doing the work.
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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.
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That's it! It's not rocket science.
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Four very simple steps that you can use to learn anything.
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Now, this is easy to talk about in theory, but it's more fun to talk about in practice.
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So one of the things that I've wanted to learn how to do for a long time is play the ukulele.
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Has anybody seen Jake Shimabukuro's TEDTalk where he plays the ukulele and makes it sound like -- he's like a ukulele god.
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It's amazing.
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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.
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And so I decided that to test this theory I wanted to put 20 hours into practicing ukulele and see where it got.
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And so the first thing about playing the ukulele is, in order to practice, you have to have one, right?
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So, I got an ukulele and -- My lovely assistant?
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(Laughter) Thank you sir. I think I need the chord here.
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It's not just an ukulele, it's an electric ukulele. (Laughter) Yeah.
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So, the first couple hours are just like the first couple hours of anything.
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You have to get the tools that you are using to practice.
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You have to make sure they're available.
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My ukulele didn't come with strings attached.
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I had to figure out how to put those on.
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Like, that's kind of important, right?
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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?
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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.
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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. (Laughter) And when I started looking at songs, I had an ukulele chord book that had like hundreds of chords.
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Looking at this and "Wow, that's intimidating".
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But when you look at the actual songs, you see the same chords over and over, right?
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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.
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And in most songs you'll use four, maybe five chords, and that's it, that's the song.
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You don't have to know hundreds, as long as you know the four or the five.
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So, while I was doing my research, I found a wonderful little medley of pop songs by a band called Axis of Awesome. (Whistles) -- 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.
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Four chords pump out every pop song ever, right?
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So I thought, this is cool!
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I would like to play every pop song ever. (Laughter) So, that was the first song I decided to learn, and I would like to actually share it with you. Ready?
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(Applause) Alright.
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(Music) (Singing) Just a small town girl, living in a lonely world, she took the midnight train going anywhere.
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I heard that you settled down, (Laughter) that you found a girl, that you're married now.
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Every night in my dreams (Laughter) I see you, I feel you, that is how I know you go on. (Laughter) I won't hesitate no more, no more. It cannot wait, I'm yours.
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'Cause you were amazing, we did amazing things.
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If I could, then I would, I'd go wherever you will -- Can you feel the love tonight. (Laughter) I can't live with or without you.
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When I find myself -- 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.
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Yeah mama, this surely is a dream.
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I come from a land down under. (Laughter) Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong.
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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. (Laughter) It's time to say goodbye.
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Closing time, every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
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(Singing and music ends) (Applause) Thank you, thank you.
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I love that song. (Laughter) And I have a secret to share with you.
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So, by playing that song for you, I just hit my twentieth hour of practicing the ukulele.
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(Applause) Thank you.
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And so it's amazing, pretty much anything that you can think of, what do you want to do.
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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.
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The major barrier's emotional. We're scared.
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Feeling stupid doesn't feel good, in the beginning of learning anything new you feel really stupid.
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So the major barrier's not intellectual, it's emotional.
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But put 20 hours into anything.
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It doesn't matter. What do you want to learn?
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Do you want to learn a language? Want to learn how to cook?
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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. It only takes 20 hours.
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Have fun. (Applause)
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このレッスンについて

TEDxCSUの「The first 20 hours -- how to learn anything | Josh Kaufman」は、新しいスキル習得に関する画期的な視点を提供する動画です。多くの人が信じる「10,000時間の法則」に異を唱え、ジョシュ・カウフマンは最初の20時間をいかに効果的に活用するかに焦点を当てます。子育てで多忙を極める自身の経験から、彼は効率的な学習法を模索し、短期間で新しいスキルを「使えるレベル」にするためのアプローチを提案します。

この動画は、英語スピーキング練習やあらゆる言語学習において、モチベーションを維持し、限られた時間で上達するためのヒントが満載です。特に、以下のような点について深く考えるきっかけを与えてくれます。

  • 新しいスキルの習得に対する固定観念を打ち破る
  • 目標設定と学習計画の重要性
  • 効率的な練習方法とその実践

動画の内容を深く理解し、表現することで、あなたの英語の流暢さは飛躍的に向上するでしょう。自分の経験を語ったり、一般的な概念を説明したりするスピーキングの文脈で役立つ表現が豊富に含まれています。

重要な語彙とフレーズ

  • welcomed our daughter Lela into the world
    (娘のレラが生まれました):子供が生まれたことを表現する、温かいフレーズです。
  • your whole world changes overnight
    (あなたの世界全体が一晩で変わる):状況が劇的に、短期間で変化する様子を表します。
  • sleep deprivation really kicked in
    (睡眠不足が本当にひどくなった、影響が出始めた):「kick in」は効果や影響が表れ始めるという意味です。
  • discerning to me
    (私にとって不安にさせるものだった):心配や混乱を引き起こす状況を説明する際に使います。
  • fiddling around
    (あれこれいじくり回す、試行錯誤する):何かを試したり、弄ったりする様子を表す口語的な表現です。
  • acquire a new skill
    (新しいスキルを習得する):何か新しい能力を身につけるという意味のフォーマルな表現です。
  • rough order of magnitude
    (おおよその桁、大体の規模):正確な数値ではなく、だいたいの大きさを伝える際に使います。
  • deliberate practice
    (意図的な練習、熟考された練習):漫然と行うのではなく、明確な目標を持って集中して行う練習を指します。

この動画の練習のコツ

このTEDxトークは、シャドーイング発音練習に最適な教材です。ジョシュ・カウフマンの話すスタイルは明瞭で聞き取りやすく、語学学習者にとって非常に実用的です。

話速とリズム

  • カウフマン氏の話速はTEDトークとしては標準的ですが、ところどころで感情を込めて強調する部分があります。まずはスクリプトを見ながら、意味の塊ごとにポーズを取り、英語スピーキング練習の第一歩として、彼のリズムを真似てみましょう。
  • 徐々に話速を上げ、自然なポーズやイントネーションを意識することで、英語の流暢さを高めることができます。特にユーモラスな部分(観客の笑い声の後など)では、声のトーンや表情も真似てみましょう。

アクセントと発音

  • 彼の発音はクリアなアメリカ英語です。単語一つ一つのクリアさだけでなく、センテンス全体のリズムやストレス(強弱)に注目してください。
  • 特に、接続詞や前置詞などの機能語は弱く、名詞や動詞などの内容語は強く発音される傾向があります。これらの強弱を意識した発音練習は、あなたの英語をより自然に響かせます。
  • 「10,000 hours」といった数字を強調する部分や、「No!!」といった感情的な表現での声の出し方を真似ることは、感情表現の幅を広げるのに役立ちます。

トピックの難易度とIELTS対策

  • この動画の導入部分は、子育ての経験という個人的な話題から始まり、徐々にスキル習得の一般的な研究というアカデミックなトピックへと移行します。
  • 前半の日常的な会話から、後半の専門的な概念を説明する流れは、IELTS対策におけるPart 2(スピーチ)やPart 3(ディスカッション)の練習に非常に有効です。複雑な情報を簡潔に説明し、自分の意見を論理的に展開する方法を学ぶのに適しています。
  • 自分の意見や経験を具体的に語る練習として、動画の内容を自分の学習経験に当てはめて語り直すことで、より実践的な英語スピーキング練習が可能です。

シャドーイングとは?英語上達に効果的な理由

シャドーイング(Shadowing)は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的:ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影(shadow)」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。

ShadowingEnglishでの効果的な学習方法

  1. 動画を選ぶ: 自然で明瞭な英語が使われているYouTube動画を選びましょう。TED Talks、BBC News、映画のシーン、ポッドキャスト、IELTS模範解答などが最適です。URLをコピーして検索バーに貼り付けてください。短い動画(5分以内)や、自分が本当に興味を持てるテーマから始めるのがコツです。
  2. まず聞いて内容を理解する: 最初は1倍速でただ聞くだけにしましょう。まだ繰り返す必要はありません。文の意味を理解し、話者がどのように単語を強調し、音を繋げ、間を取っているかに注目してください。内容を把握してからシャドーイングに入ると、はるかに効果的です。
  3. シャドーイングモードを設定する:
    • Wait Mode(待機モード): +3s または +5s を選ぶと、動画が一文を読み終えた後に自動で一時停止し、繰り返す時間が生まれます。完全に手動でコントロールしたい場合は Manual を選んでNextを自分で押しましょう。
    • Sub Sync(字幕同期): YouTubeの字幕と音声がずれることがあります。±100ms で調整して、正確なタイミングで追えるようにしてください。
  4. 声に出してシャドーイングする(最重要): ここが練習の本質です。文が流れると同時に——または一時停止中に——はっきりと自信を持って声に出して繰り返しましょう。ただ単語を読むだけでなく、話者のリズム、強調、高低、連音をそっくりそのまま真似することが大切です。「影」のように話者に重なるのが理想。Repeat機能を使って同じ文を何度も繰り返し、自然に出てくるまで定着させましょう。
  5. 徐々に難易度を上げて続ける: 一つのパッセージに慣れたら、さらに挑戦してみましょう。速度を <code>1.25x</code> や <code>1.5x</code> に上げれば、高速の言語反射を鍛えられます。Wait Modeを <code>Off</code> にして連続シャドーイングするのが最も上級で効果的なモードです。毎日15〜30分継続すれば、数週間で目に見える変化を実感できます。

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