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 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 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 DBT Skills Training Manual written by Marsha M. Linehan and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Marsha M. Linehan--the developer of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)--this comprehensive resource provides vital tools for implementing DBT skills training. The reproducible teaching notes, handouts, and worksheets used for over two decades by hundreds of thousands of practitioners have been significantly revised and expanded to reflect important research and clinical advances. The book gives complete instructions for orienting clients to DBT, plus teaching notes for the full range of mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance skills. Handouts and worksheets are not included in the book; purchasers get access to a webpage where they can download and print all the handouts and worksheets discussed, as well as the teaching notes. The companion volume is available separately: DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets, Second Edition. New to This Edition *Handouts and worksheets (available online and in the companion volume) have been completely revised and dozens more added--more than 225 in all. *Each module has been expanded with additional skills. *Multiple alternative worksheets to tailor treatment to each client. *More extensive reproducible teaching notes (provided in the book and online), with numerous clinical examples. *Curricula for running skills training groups of different durations and with specific populations, such as adolescents and clients with substance use problems. *Linehan provides a concise overview of "How to Use This Book." See also DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets, Second Edition, a spiral-bound 8 1/2" x 11" volume containing all of the handouts and worksheets and featuring brief introductions to each module written expressly for clients. Plus, Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder, the authoritative presentation of DBT. Also available: Linehan's instructive skills training DVDS for clients--Crisis Survival Skills: Part One and This One Moment.
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 A Late Start Tamer s Laid Back Life Volume 6 written by Yuu Tanaka and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After braving the Fire Elementals’ trial, Yuto and his companions welcome their newest member, Himka, into the fold. As a change of pace from their dungeon crawling, the group heads to Zone Three to search for new materials and to get to know the four local towns. During their quest, Yuto unsurprisingly strikes gold again, stumbling upon a previously undiscovered secret location. With the addition of yokai to the game, new creatures lie in store for Yuto and his monsters to encounter: the adorable Obake, the playful and fun-loving Zashiki-Warashi, and many, many more.
Download or read book Open Fantasy written by Anthony Uyl and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-08-14 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The crawling dungeon awaits. Dark terrors lurk within its depths that need brave adventurers to go and clean out. In Open Fantasy you can take the role of a wide variety of non-class based characters to clean out as many dark and dangerous places as your heart may desire. Of course the game master may have something to say about this, depending on whether youOve bribed her with enough soda and chips tonight. Open Fantasy is an OpenD6 system that allows for great flexibility and character building options. Literally anything is possible within the options listed within these pages, the only limiting factor is your own imagination along with the dungeon your game master builds for you to explore."
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 Starting from Staten Island written by George T. Wright and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2014 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My earlier book, The Wrights of Vermont (Wheatmark, 2013), reported the search I began about ten years ago for my father's Vermont forebears. I had learned a lot, especially about my grandmother's heroic efforts to save her shaky marriage. Eventually she left Vermont to begin a new life on Staten Island for herself and her two sons, Dad and Uncle Ray. This book shows Dad and Mother starting their family on Staten Island and describes our home, our neighborhood, the boarding house where we sometimes dined, the schools we attended, the songs we sang, how we learned to think about money, work, fun, guilt, and politics, and our experience, especially mine, of illness, solitude, and books. Later chapters show our horizons expanding. They tell where we went on outings and how we spent our summers (ours at a riverside cottage near the New Jersey coast, and mine at an unusual summer camp in upstate New York), and they sketch the different world we found when we moved to Manhattan in 1941. I entered Columbia then and began to discover new realms of literature, philosophy, and music. Then at eighteen, with other young men of that time, I was swept up into military service in the U.S. Army and war in France and Germany.
Download or read book Righteous Blood Ruthless Blades written by Brendan Davis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Righteous Blood, Ruthless Blades is a roleplaying game of dark adventure and heroic thrills inspired primarily by the wuxia stories of Gu Long. Players assume the roles of eccentric heroes who solve mysteries, avenge misdeeds, uphold justice, and demonstrate profound mastery of the martial arts. Character creation is designed to produce fleshed-out, potent individuals who can follow several paths, including those of the physician, beggar, assassin, thief, soldier, bandit, and more. These characters inhabit a unique martial world, or Jianghu, set in a romanticized ancient China. The towns, temples, and inns the characters can visit, and the sects and factions with whom they interact, will bring their own character to the game and provide a host of opportunities – and threats. The game is based on a simple ten-sided dice pool mechanic, loosely modeled on the one found in Wandering Heroes of Ogre Gate, and play is designed to be gritty, suspenseful, and fast, so the focus remains on solving mysteries and roleplaying your character. When combat does arise, it is consequential and swift, and often resolved in a single role of the dice. This rulebook includes a sample martial world and a starting adventure, as well as guidelines for games masters looking to run wuxia games and create their own unique Jianghu, rife with martial experts, sects, and mysterious locations.
Download or read book PAX Draconis written by Justin Dagna and published by Technicraft. This book was released on 2003 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Evaluation of the Even Start Family Literacy Program written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Skill Acquisition in Sport written by A. Mark Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-07-31 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Success in sport depends on the athlete's ability to develop and fine-tune a specific set of motor skills. In this book leading authorities within the field provide a comprehensive review of current research and theory in sports skills acquisition.
Download or read book Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II written by David S. J. Hodgson and published by Prima Games. This book was released on 2004 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are the Republic's only hope . . . or biggest threat. -Detailed stats, equipment, and ability descriptions for all party members -Covers all main allies and foes -Exhaustive Jedi Mastery helps you master each Jedi class -Detailed maps for every planet and location -Construct the ultimate weapon and armor kits with our expert workbench tips -All Secret Powers unearthed! -All Jedi Party Members Revealed! -The best ranged and melee weapons combat tested and approved!
Download or read book Head Start Newsletter written by Project Head Start (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Playful Preparedness Prepare Your Children For Life written by Tim Young and published by Small Farm Nation. This book was released on with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepare your children to survive in the real world! Today’s children can recognize over 1,000 corporate logos but can’t identify 10 plants native to their region. They live in an artificial world—one where they spend less than seven minutes per day playing outdoors and over seven hours per day staring at a digital device. But the threats our children face are real, from random violence and terrorism to natural, manmade, and accidental disasters. What skills do today’s children have to prepare them to face threats of violence and disaster? For that matter, what skills and resources do their parents have? Playful Preparedness is a one-of-a-kind preparedness book, packed with 26 games and dozens of activities to help teach children situational awareness, life-saving preparedness skills, and the survival mindset so that they can survive in the real world. Read Playful Preparedness today and help your children to become prepared—for life. For more in-depth knowledge about preparedness, read my new book, START PREPPING!
