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Josh Kaufman is the author of three bestselling books: The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business, The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything… Fast!, How to Fight a Hydra: Face Your Fears, Pursue Your Ambitions, and Become the Hero You Are Destined to Be. Josh has been featured as the #1 bestselling author in Business & Money, as ranked by Amazon.com, and his books have sold over a million copies worldwide. Josh's TEDx talk on The First 20 Hours is one of the top 25 most-viewed TED talks published to date, with over 22 million views on YouTube.
Notes:
Sustaining Excellence =
Learn constantly
Experiment constantly
Obsessive about learning the details, not a cookie cutter approach
Rapid Skill Acquisition:
Must be specific
Break it down: don't try to do it all at once
Do research
Practice
Deconstruct the skill to its smallest parts
Make a pre-commitment - "I'm going to practice this skill for 20 hours no matter what."
Create fast feedback loops for yourself:
Keep a daily log of what you do... Meetings, interactions, what was discussed, how you feel, etc.
This helps reinforce the importance of paying attention to the small details of what you're trying to learn
If something happens, you can review your notes later
Josh has always had "a desire to understand the world around me"
Teaching is one of the greatest tools in the world for learning
"Management is the act of coordinating a group of people to achieve a goal. Management is not business. Management is not leadership. Management is a supporting function, not a decision making function."
"Leadership = define the goal, account for change."
"Good management =
Recruiting - must get good people
Communicating well between teams and decision making parts of the business
Must create environment of psychological safety
Create a productive working environment
Planning - Estimating time lines and schedules
Measurement
Commander's Intent - "When you are a leader, decision making authority, the least effective thing is for you to make all the ground level decisions." Push decision making power to the people closest to the action.
More quotes from Josh's work:
“You can't make positive discoveries that make your life better if you never try anything new.”
“Every successful business (1) creates or provides something of value that (2) other people want or need (3) at a price they're willing to pay, in a way that (4) satisfies the purchaser's needs and expectations and (5) provides the business sufficient revenue to make it worthwhile for the owners to continue operation.
“If you rely on finding time to do something, it will never be done. If you want to find time, you must make time.”
“The best thing that can happen to a human being is to find a problem, to fall in love with that problem, and to live trying to solve that problem, unless another problem even more lovable appears.”
“Every time your customers purchase from you, they’re deciding that they value what you have to offer more than they value anything else their money could buy at that moment.”
“The trouble comes when we confuse learning with skill acquisition. If you want to acquire a new skill, you must practice it in context. Learning enhances practice, but it doesn’t replace it. If performance matters, learning alone is never enough.”
"Be positive, force yourself to smile."
“Improve by 1% a day, and in just 70 days, you’re twice as good.”
“Ideas are cheap—what counts is the ability to translate an idea into reality, which is much more difficult than recognizing a good idea.”
“Fear of the unknown will always be with you, no matter what you do. That’s comforting in a way: if there’s nothing you can do to change it, there’s no reason to let it stop you.”

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