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1.改變你的心智模式，別讓他人為你的成敗負責
2.有錢人為什麼不幸福？原來是心智模式在作怪
3.讓有趣的生活撲面而來，不做“無興趣一族”
4.如果你為失去太陽而哭泣，你也將失去群星
5.別急著選擇職業，也別總想著後面還有更好的
6.裸婚不可怕，典當夢想換一套房子才可怕
7.安全感是個溫柔的陷阱，一不小心，就會成為他的奴隸
8.六招快速提升安全感，你值得擁有！
9.上帝不是要你成功，只是要你嘗試
10.成功，就是成長成你自己的樣子

關於本書：

你是否缺少安全感？你會經常覺得累？結婚一定要買房嗎？只有有錢才能夠幸福？不喜歡現在的工作卻又不知道自己該干什麼？對現在的生活不滿意，但卻因為父母、老婆或者孩子不得不這樣過下去？每天都在混日子，卻幻想有一天找到自己真正喜歡的事業就一定會全心投入？

如果有一個回答是“YES”，那麼這本書就是你想要的。也許，連我們自己也不曾意識到，那些困惑背後，往往藏著一堵堵思維里的牆，阻礙著我們，把我們與美好的生活隔開了。拆掉思維里的那些牆，你就可以獲得成功、快樂、自信和幸福。

本書金句：
1.恐懼就是這樣一個懦夫，當你觸及他的底線，接受事情最壞的結果，然後開始準備和它大干一場的時候，它早就不知道躲到哪裡去了。
2.能力=天賦×時間，如果有一件事你沒有成功，那不一定是欠缺天賦，而是欠缺時間。

3.遠離那些讓你容易獲得安全感的事情！包括過於關心你的父母、一張可以任意刷的卡、一個不會犯錯誤的任務和一個養老般的工作。那會馴化你成為安全感奴隸！

4.我們在吃飯時想著工作，在工作時想著出錯，在戀愛時擔心分手，在擁抱時還在看表⋯⋯我們不能在適當的時間做專一的事，所以我們還是凡人一個。

With just 20 hours of focused, deliberate practice, you can go from knowing absolutely nothing to performing well. That’s the message from Josh Kaufman, author of The First 20 Hours. In the video above, he reveals the four steps to learning any new skill, fast.

It’s a long, 20-minute TEDx Talk, but entertaining and enlightening too. The four steps in Kaufman’s method are:

1. Deconstruct the skill: Break down the parts and find the most important things to practice first. If you were learning to play a musical instrument, for example, knowing just a few chords gives you access to lots of songs. If you want to learn a new language, learn the most common 2000 words and you’ll have 80 per cent text coverage.
2. Self-correct: Use reference materials to learn enough that you know when you make a mistake so you can correct yourself.
3. Remove barriers to learning: Identify and remove anything that distracts you from focusing on the skill you want to learn.
4. Practise at least 20 hours.

20 hours amounts to just 40 minutes a day for a month, so what are you waiting for?

The First 20 Hours

How do you get good at anything? Let’s count the ways (four, of course) with a man who is clearly very good at counting.

Tim Ferriss is a human guinea pig: in his researching the 4-Hour Workweek, Body, and Chef, the author has thrown himself into deadlifts and omelets and French–and from all that experimentation, a meta-sequence of contrarian best practices emerged.

During a talk at the Next Web Conference in Amsterdam, Ferriss unpacked–or is it deconstructed?–the madness to his methodology.

To begin, dissemble all parts.

The first stage of skill acquisition, behavior change, or however you want to call improving yourself is deconstruction, the art of breaking a complex practice into small tasks. Within that deconstruction, Ferriss says, you can suss out the failure points of your potential practice and avoid them for the first five sessions, after which it can become a habit.

Ferriss learned to swim only five years ago, he says, because he had a hard time breathing and kept getting exhausted from kicking. Then he discovered Total Immersion Swimming, which sidestepped those pain points.

Then find where the value comes from.

Next is selection: he anchors his argument to the Pareto principle, stating that you get 80% of your value from 20% of the work. The key, then, is locating those most valuable factors of a given undertaking, going all-in on them, and cutting away excess distractions. As we learned in the breakfast nook, you can accelerate your productivity–and save yourself stress–by making decisions about the way you make decisions. A prime example of that creative reductionism is Axis of Awesome, the Australian band that can teach you to play guitar using only four chords.

And nail the timing.

Then comes what Ferriss says is the secret sauce: sequencing, or determining what order you should learn those most important factors. Again he eschews the received wisdom: The dude became a tango champion because he learned the following, or traditionally female role, in the dance, rather than the more complex lead role.

Another hack with sequencing is being able to find places to fit in “no stakes” practice. The worst time to learn how to cook, Ferriss says, is when you’re trying to make a meal. Take, for instance, growing your cooking techniques–if you click to 17.43 in the video, you’ll see a slide of him kneeling and holding a pan. What’s he up to?

“I’m learning how to sauté. I’m practicing the wrist motion with dry beans in a skillet. Kneeling on a carpet so they don’t fly everywhere on a hardwood floor. [If] you do this for 20 minutes, two or three times, you’ll have the motion down, and you can use two hands over the stove–no problem. No omelets on walls.”

But you need proper motivation

Finally, you’ll never integrate the practice into your life unless you have stakes, he says. You don’t get fired from your diet if you don’t follow through; you just stay the same. So, Ferriss says, you need to build a way for you to lose something.

He mentions Stickk, a site that catalyzes that incentive process: You choose your goal, a referee (possibly “a merciless friend who will punish you”), and an anti-charity to give to (the highest on Stickk is the George W. Bush Memorial Library, Ferriss reports). The data is telling: When you give someone stakes and a referee, the rate of compliance hikes from 25% to more than 70%.

In other words, you can change your behavior when you create the right situation–if you are impeccable about the way you structure your efforts. The process is one of creative reduction, Ferriss says:

“Decision is related to the word incision, it means ‘to cut off.’ It means to cut away other options and to commit and to focus on whatever skill you have in [your] head.” 

Tim Ferriss shares how to master any skill by deconstructing it [Video]

[Image: Flickr user Katherine McAdoo]