FIRST 20 HOURS - One skill at a time, or several? by JoshKaufman published on 2013-06-13T23:38:50Z Robert asks: "Do you recommend focusing on learning one skill at a time or is it possible to learn multiple skills at once?" http://first20hours.com --- SpeakerText Transcript of the Track: Robert asks, do you recommend on learning one skill at a time, or is it possible to learn multiple skills at once? Very clear answer to this. Focus on learning one skill at a time. No question about it. And it really is If you have a busy schedule, it's a question of math. If you're focusing on learning multiple skills at a time, you're bouncing around from one skill to the next, but you only have maybe an hour, hour and a half every day to devote to learning new things. You don't get enough. You don't get that critical mass of attention on a single skill that's significant enough to improve. And so It is way more effective to focus on one skill, and you don't have to decide not to do all the other things you're interested in, you just to put that on your someday maybe list and say I'm interested in learning that thing but I'm not focusing on it right now. If you can do that and focus on one skill at a time and devote whatever spare hours you have into getting better at that thing, you will be way better off and you'll be way more skilled in every area if you focus on one skill instead of trying to tackle multiple skills at a time. Now if you're retired and you have all day to learn new things, then by all means take on a couple. But treat that as a special case. For the vast majority of us that don't have unlimited amounts of time and attention everyday always focus on one skill at a time. <a href="http://speakertext.com/videos/4277766">Review Transcript and Additional Download Options</a> <a href="http://attachments.soundcloud.com/attachment-28693-tracks-96792565-1374370980-0?5ffe3cd">Right-click and choose 'Save As...' to download HTML for CaptionBox</a> Genre Books & Spoken