How to learn anything faster the first three rambling chapters of the first 20 hours introduce many general principles of rapid skill acquisition and effective learning the six succeeding chapters give kaufmans firsthand accounts of how he applied these principles to learn yoga programming touch typing a chinese board game called go ukulele and windsurfing . Business adviser and author josh kaufman wrote the first 20 hours how to learn anythingfast summary a common misconception is that it takes 10000 hours to learn something. This post summarizes chapters one to three of the first 20 hours how to learn anything fast by josh kaufman these chapters introduce a number of general principles of rapid skill acquisition and effective learning the remaining chapters on yoga programming touch typing go ukelele and windsurfing are meant to illustrate how the author . The first three chapters of this self help book give some great tips to learning anything you want in 20 hours you may not be an expert but you should be able to have fun with that new skill however the remaining 6 chapters are about how the author learned to play go windsurf play the ukulele learn computer programming do yoga and learn a keyboard that is not qwerty