The magic of first 20 hours of learning new things Today, I would like to share one great TED talk I came across on YouTube recently. The talk is about learning new things. Everyone wish to learn new things, whether it's new language, or how to cook, draw, swim, we wish to learn new things. However, it's so hard to start and keep at it. I'm sure you have at least one memory dropping learning new things. If so, I would strongly recommend you to watch this video. It explains how important it is to be persistent just for 20 hours. And you will get to the fairly reasonable level doing new things. Of course, if you want to perfect it and be really good at it, it takes long time. But to get to the reasonable level, it doesn't take so long. 20 hours is just as less as 45 minutes a day for a month. If you think about 1 day is 24 hours, 20 hours is nothing! After watching this video, I decided to learn modern calligraphy. I was on a phase of thinking to learn this for such a long long time - like more than a year or two. I bought some paper, nibs and pen holder, and started practicing. It's been almost two weeks since I have started, and I can already see the improvement in my calligraphy! I hope this will help you if you are thinking to learn something new. Also, I'm learning English. So if you are learning English too, let's chat on Skype. Or if you are learning Japanese, probably we can talk 15 min in English and 15 min in Japanese. I'm a native Japanese speaker and I will be able to help you with your Japanese. Any comments are welcome, and I appreciate your corrections! >>> The first 20 hours -- how to learn anything | Josh Kaufman | TEDxCSU >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MgBikgcWnY