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Josh Kaufman

Josh Kaufman is the bestselling author of books on business, entrepreneurship, skill acquisition, applied psychology, and practical wisdom. About Josh Kaufman »

Books by Josh Kaufman

Josh Kaufman is the author of three bestselling books…

The Personal MBA: Master The Art of Business

The Personal MBA, Josh Kaufman's foundational business training book, has sold over 1 million copies worldwide since the first edition was published in late 2010.

Since publication, The Personal MBA has been featured as the #1 bestseller in a wide variety of categories on Amazon.com, including Business Training, Business Management, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, and Product Development.

On publication, the international edition of The Personal MBA was the the #1 bestselling nonfiction book in the United Kingdom, and remained #1 for two consecutive months.

The Personal MBA has also been used as a textbook for business courses at Stanford University, New York University, Howard University, and Portland State University.

The audiobook edition of The Personal MBA was named Best of Audible in the business category by Audible.com in 2012, and was honored as a finalist in the 2013 Audio Publishers Association's Audie awards, the most prestigious honor of the audio publishing industry.

The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything… Fast!

The First 20 Hours has been featured as the #1 bestseller in Business Self-Improvement, Educational Psychology, and Personal Transformation on Amazon.com.

Josh's TEDx talk on The First 20 Hours has been viewed over 40 million times worldwide on YouTube, making it one of the top 25 most-viewed TED talks published to date.

The First 20 Hours, details a universal, field-tested method of rapid skill acquisition designed to help readers pick up rewarding new skills in record time. Used by readers to learn everything from piloting airplanes to sumo wrestling, The First 20 Hours helps readers pick up useful and rewarding new skills as fast as humanly possible.

The First 20 Hours was an instant international bestseller, and the book has been translated into six languages.

How to Fight a Hydra: Face Your Fears, Pursue Your Ambitions, and Become the Hero You Are Destined to Be

How to Fight a Hydra, a short story about the nature of ambition, risk, uncertainty, and fear of the unknown, has been featured as the #1 bestseller in Modern Philosophy on Amazon.com.