Download or read book The First 20 Hours written by Josh Kaufman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forget the 10,000 hour rule— what if it’s possible to learn the basics of any new skill in 20 hours or less? Take a moment to consider how many things you want to learn to do. What’s on your list? What’s holding you back from getting started? Are you worried about the time and effort it takes to acquire new skills—time you don’t have and effort you can’t spare? Research suggests it takes 10,000 hours to develop a new skill. In this nonstop world when will you ever find that much time and energy? To make matters worse, the early hours of practicing something new are always the most frustrating. That’s why it’s difficult to learn how to speak a new language, play an instrument, hit a golf ball, or shoot great photos. It’s so much easier to watch TV or surf the web . . . In The First 20 Hours, Josh Kaufman offers a systematic approach to rapid skill acquisition— how to learn any new skill as quickly as possible. His method shows you how to deconstruct complex skills, maximize productive practice, and remove common learning barriers. By completing just 20 hours of focused, deliberate practice you’ll go from knowing absolutely nothing to performing noticeably well. Kaufman personally field-tested the methods in this book. You’ll have a front row seat as he develops a personal yoga practice, writes his own web-based computer programs, teaches himself to touch type on a nonstandard keyboard, explores the oldest and most complex board game in history, picks up the ukulele, and learns how to windsurf. Here are a few of the simple techniques he teaches: Define your target performance level: Figure out what your desired level of skill looks like, what you’re trying to achieve, and what you’ll be able to do when you’re done. The more specific, the better. Deconstruct the skill: Most of the things we think of as skills are actually bundles of smaller subskills. If you break down the subcomponents, it’s easier to figure out which ones are most important and practice those first. Eliminate barriers to practice: Removing common distractions and unnecessary effort makes it much easier to sit down and focus on deliberate practice. Create fast feedback loops: Getting accurate, real-time information about how well you’re performing during practice makes it much easier to improve. Whether you want to paint a portrait, launch a start-up, fly an airplane, or juggle flaming chainsaws, The First 20 Hours will help you pick up the basics of any skill in record time . . . and have more fun along the way.
Download or read book Sharing is Caring written by Hélène Hilton and published by DK Children. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boo the monkey doesn't want to share. Can Bip and Bop show Boo that sharing is more fun for everyone?
Download or read book Starting Chess written by Harriet Castor and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the basics of chess, including the layout of the board, the verious pieces and how they move, exchanges, opening and closing moves, and chess notation.
Download or read book Starting Skills written by Terry Phillips and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting Skills 2: Course Book A new course in the Starting Skills in English series, combining all skills from Part B into one volume. Now with extra material in the form of a Workbook. Have you studied English at school? Do you need to improve your competence in English? Then you need Starting Skills. This course will help you improve your competence in the basic skills of English for college or university study. In Starting Skills Book 2 you will learn 200 key words from ten knowledge areas. You will also learn to: define and describe objects identify key factual information predict information in a talk talk about charts and graphs discuss key facts in the past identify key parts of speech read factual information and encyclopedia entries write accurately using basic sentence patterns use key spelling rules Starting Skills Books 1 and 2 with Building Skills 1 and 2 and Developing Skills 1 and 2 form a five-level course for higher education studies in English which will take you from Starter to Advanced. Accompanying Workbook and Teacher's Book also available.
Download or read book SEL from the Start Building Skills in K 5 Social and Emotional Learning Solutions written by Sara E. Rimm-Kaufman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lessons to begin using from the first day of school. Teachers are trained to manage misbehavior in the classroom, but receive little guidance about how to cultivate positive, prosocial behavior. With this book in hand, elementary teachers will be ready to launch the school year with confidence, using the concrete strategies in each chapter for improving students’ SEL skills in the five categories defined by CASEL (the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning): communication skills, emotion management, emotional awareness, social awareness, and decision-making skills. This handy guide breaks down instruction of these skills into small, sequenced steps, making it easy to foster students’ skills from the start of school and build on them as the year progresses.
Download or read book The Art of Fire written by Daniel Hume and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fire can fascinate, inspire, capture the imagination and bring families and communities together. It has the ability to amaze, energise and touch something deep inside all of us. For thousands of years, at every corner of the globe, humans have been huddling around fires: from the basic and primitive essentials of light, heat, energy and cooking, through to modern living, fire plays a central role in all of our lives. The ability to accurately and quickly light a fire is one of the most important skills anyone setting off on a wilderness adventure could possess, yet very little has been written about it. Through his narrative Hume also meditates on the wider topics surrounding fire and how it shapes the world around us.
Download or read book Starting Skills 2 written by Terry Phillips and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting Skills 2: Teacher's Book A new course in the Starting Skills in English series, combining all skills from Part B into one volume. Now with extra material in the form of a Workbook. Have you studied English at school? Do you need to improve your competence in English? Then you need Starting Skills. This course will help you improve your competence in the basic skills of English for college or university study. In Starting Skills Book 2 you will learn 200 key words from ten knowledge areas. You will also learn to: define and describe objects identify key factual information predict information in a talk talk about charts and graphs discuss key facts in the past identify key parts of speech read factual information and encyclopedia entries write accurately using basic sentence patterns use key spelling rules Starting Skills Books 1 and 2 with Building Skills 1 and 2 and Developing Skills 1 and 2 form a five-level course for higher education studies in English which will take you from Starter to Advanced. Accompanying Course Book and Workbook also available.
Download or read book Developing Skills 1 written by Terry Phillips and published by . This book was released on 2011-06-13 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing Skills 1: Teacher's Book This course will help you improve your competence in English for college or university study to an upper-intermediate level. In Book 1: Listening skills include: following a lecture using symbols and abbreviations in notes recognizing signposts and digressions understanding and noting the main points Reading skills include: confirming precise meaning extracting relevant information from case studies looking for evidence narrative descriptions finding the main information in active and passive sentences Speaking skills include: describing similarity and difference discussing case studies comparing more than two things exchanging information reporting on research Writing skills include: concluding opinions joining sentences using the passive to describe a process discursive essays, reviews, instructions, e-mails, ‘how to’ texts Starting Skills Books 1 and 2 with Building Skills Books 1 and 2 and Developing Skills Books 1 and 2 form a six-level course for higher education studies in English which will take you from Starter to Upper-intermediate. Accompanying Course Book and Workbook also available.
Download or read book Modern Dungeon Capture Starting with Broken Skills Light Novel Vol 1 written by Yuuki Kimikawa and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2023-09-21 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monster-filled dungeons have recently appeared in our world. When average office worker Mizuki Ryousuke gets transferred to the Japanese countryside, by the time he gets there, the office is gone and a dungeon's sitting in its place! He finds a number of odd things when he ventures inside, like a fairy about to be eaten by goblins and a mysterious skill book that allows him to turn skills--even overpowered ones--into cards so he can use them at will! Rumors of Mizuki and his broken skills spread, and requests for him to hunt down rare items in other dungeons pour in. Where will Mizuki's new career take him next?
Download or read book Ready to Read written by Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepare your child for their first day of school with this fun and interactive way for them to learn their first words. Fun and friendly characters Bip, Bop, and Boo encourage children to start developing their reading skills with simple words and exercises. Children will practise their phonics skills by reading letter sounds, finding missing sound stickers, and blending letter sounds to read their very first words! Featuring over 80 colourful stickers, Skills for Starting School Ready to Read is filled with hands-on activities to spark a love of reading and boost confidence in learning key literacy skills. Children will love learning to read with Bip, Bop, and Boo.
Download or read book Mind in the Making written by Ellen Galinsky and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-04-02 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Ellen Galinsky—already the go-to person on interaction between families and the workplace—draws on fresh research to explain what we ought to be teaching our children. This is must-reading for everyone who cares about America’s fate in the 21st century.” — Judy Woodruff, Senior Correspondent for The PBS NewsHour Families and Work Institute President Ellen Galinsky (Ask the Children, The Six Stages of Parenthood) presents a book of groundbreaking advice based on the latest research on child development.
Download or read book Social Skills Training for Children and Youth written by Craig Lecroy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most complete sources of information on the development of social skills training with youth, this useful volume integrates current research and practice. Practitioners interested in establishing or revising current social service delivery programs for children and adolescents will discover valuable conceptual and programmatic ideas.
Download or read book Write from the Start Book 2 written by Ion Teodorescu and published by Instructional Fair. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This radically different and effective approach to handwriting gently guides both regular and special education students through the necessary stages of perceptual and fine-motor development towards legibility. Book 2 begins by expandingon the activities offered in Book 1 including connecting dots, circling a shape inside and out, words searches, figure-ground discrimination, and tracing routes (mazes). Then Book 2 moves on to coloring, copying patterns and diagrams, letter searches, and connecting reference points in a grid to make capital letters. Write from the Start lays a firm foundation for accurate handwriting
Download or read book Modern Dungeon Capture Starting with Broken Skills Light Novel Vol 2 written by Yuuki Kimikawa and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2024-04-18 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mizuki Ryosuke escaped corporate life, certain death, defeated a Boss Ogre, and now lives with a new roommate--fairy girl Kessie! A dungeon appears in Omori City, and the local government asks him to help manage it. Mizuki reluctantly accepts, and with his skillbook in tow, the dungeon clearing proceeds as planned. When Mizuki and Kessie face their greatest trial yet, will the skillbook reveal its true form? And is there any truth to that weird conspiracy going around?
Download or read book The Little Book of Talent written by Daniel Coyle and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A manual for building a faster brain and a better you! The Little Book of Talent is an easy-to-use handbook of scientifically proven, field-tested methods to improve skills—your skills, your kids’ skills, your organization’s skills—in sports, music, art, math, and business. The product of five years of reporting from the world’s greatest talent hotbeds and interviews with successful master coaches, it distills the daunting complexity of skill development into 52 clear, concise directives. Whether you’re age 10 or 100, whether you’re on the sports field or the stage, in the classroom or the corner office, this is an essential guide for anyone who ever asked, “How do I get better?” Praise for The Little Book of Talent “The Little Book of Talent should be given to every graduate at commencement, every new parent in a delivery room, every executive on the first day of work. It is a guidebook—beautiful in its simplicity and backed by hard science—for nurturing excellence.”—Charles Duhigg, bestselling author of The Power of Habit “It’s so juvenile to throw around hyperbolic terms such as ‘life-changing,’ but there’s no other way to describe The Little Book of Talent. I was avidly trying new things within the first half hour of reading it and haven’t stopped since. Brilliant. And yes: life-changing.”—Tom Peters, co-author of In Search of Excellence
Download or read book Starting to Manage written by Gerard M. Blair and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work should be useful for anyone heading for a management role or who has arrived in that position unprepared. It aims to provide an introduction to what's needed for the job and should be of interest to anyone workinng in industry, education, local government, health services or the professions.
Download or read book Usborne Starting Ballet written by Helen Edom and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains and illustrates ballet technique as well as how a ballet performance is produced. Also highlights famous ballets.
