The 4-Hour Chef
by Timothy Ferriss
Ostensibly a cookbook, actually Ferriss' manual on accelerated learning using cooking as the case study: deconstruction, selection, sequencing, stakes, plus wilderness, hunting and a professional kitchen. It is sprawling and self-indulgent and the meta-learning section is the most useful thing in it.
Read it if…
you want a method for learning any skill fast, and do not mind it arriving as a cookbook.
Skip it if…
you want a cookbook; it is not a good one.
Three things you will actually use
- Deconstruct the skill into its smallest units.
- Select the twenty percent that gives eighty percent.
- Add stakes to guarantee practice.
Do this first
Read the meta-learning section and apply DiSSS to one skill you have been avoiding.
Our verdict
Sprawling; the learning method is the prize.
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