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“I have an idea for a new product but I don’t know how to build it,” Josh Kaufman writes on the first page of his book: TheFirst 20 Hours: How to learn anything fast . So do I and so probably do you. So why are we not doing it? “How much free time do you have each day after all your work and family obligations are complete?” asks Kaufman. “Do you feel like you’d need 36 or 48 hours in a day to finally sit down and learn something new?” In 2008 another US author Malcolm Gladwell wrote Outliers in which he argued that you needed 10,000 hours of skills training to become better than other people at something. You may notice that the England football team has just used the 10,000 hours idea as the basis of its skills work with young England footballers. So now you have a new barrier to not learning something new. “Not only do you have to make time for practice…but now you have to put in 10,000 hours.” Kaufman’s book, which will help any business owner looking to grow and develo...