Whatever you want to do with your life -speak a language, change career, master yoga- you must master new skills. But where can you find the time? You are already busy, much too busy to spend the 10,000 hours Malcolm Gladwell claims you\`ll need to master a new skill. Moreover, the early hours of practicing something new are always the most frustrating: if you can\`t make it through the first 10-20 hours, you\`ll never get to 10,000. Josh Kaufman\`s The First 20 Hours is a systematic approach for acquiring new skills quickly with a small amount of practice each day. Kaufman outlines a practical process to deconstruct complex skills, maximize productive practice, and remove common learning barriers, creating a realistic and achievable approach. Kaufman invites the reader to join him as he field tests his approach by learning to program a web application, play the ukulele, get the hang of windsurfing, touch type, and study the oldest and most complex board game in history.