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Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career
Scott H. Young
3.93 AVERAGE
231 reviews for:
Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career
Scott H. Young
3.93 AVERAGE
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2nd read:
I read this book a couple of years ago and was fortunate enough to have Scott on my podcast as well. I don’t know if I’m going through a mid-life crisis or what, but I decided I wanted to learn some new skills. Currently, I’m learning video game development as well as learning to draw, so I’m taking some courses. I was thinking, “What’s the best way to learn and really grasp these skills?”, and then I remembered Scott’s book.
This book holds up years later and gives you a great roadmap for learning something new. It helped me lay out a plan, which accelerated my learning. I think the best tip from this book is metalearning, which is learning what you need to learn first. From there, you can map out a strategy for yourself.
1st read:
This book easily became one of my favorite books as soon as I started reading it. I have this unquenchable thirst for knowledge, which is why I read hundreds of non-fiction books each year, but sometimes I have turning my knowledge into something useful. I write and create YouTube content, but this book from Scott Young gave me a whole new assortment of ideas for how I can receive dividends from all of the knowledge I acquire. This book taught me that I can use my love of learning as a sort of super power that can help me at my job, help me with my son, and a lot more. I'll definitely be re-reading this book for years to come.
I read this book a couple of years ago and was fortunate enough to have Scott on my podcast as well. I don’t know if I’m going through a mid-life crisis or what, but I decided I wanted to learn some new skills. Currently, I’m learning video game development as well as learning to draw, so I’m taking some courses. I was thinking, “What’s the best way to learn and really grasp these skills?”, and then I remembered Scott’s book.
This book holds up years later and gives you a great roadmap for learning something new. It helped me lay out a plan, which accelerated my learning. I think the best tip from this book is metalearning, which is learning what you need to learn first. From there, you can map out a strategy for yourself.
1st read:
This book easily became one of my favorite books as soon as I started reading it. I have this unquenchable thirst for knowledge, which is why I read hundreds of non-fiction books each year, but sometimes I have turning my knowledge into something useful. I write and create YouTube content, but this book from Scott Young gave me a whole new assortment of ideas for how I can receive dividends from all of the knowledge I acquire. This book taught me that I can use my love of learning as a sort of super power that can help me at my job, help me with my son, and a lot more. I'll definitely be re-reading this book for years to come.
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“Learning, at its core, is a broadening of horizons, of seeing things that were previously invisible and of recognizing capabilities within yourself that you didn't know existed”
In this "how to learn a lot fast" book, Scott Young describes his experiences of ultralearning (learning information at great depth in a short amount of time while retaining the knowledge long-term) and provides the core principles that allow anyone to be able to do the same. He discusses his experience of completing an MIT computer science degree in one year, and learning multiple languages in a matter of months.
I started off reading this with a skeptical look on my face. It seemed like this was another book emphasizing shortcuts for things that you should not take shortcuts for. But upon reading it, I found parts of it quite compelling. For one thing, the author clearly did his research. He pulls on theories from psychology as well as great learners from the past. There are certainly interesting stories of people who have accomplished great feats of learning, and he humanizes them and makes it seem like it would be possible for anyone to accomplish these feats. He also very clearly (and with great depth) goes into the nine principles he employed when he undertook his ultralearning experience. In that regard, I found that there was nothing groundbreaking in here. Everything in this book is probably something you've heard before regarding learning theory. However, I did find it nice to have everything in one book, so that when I do want to learn something intensely and quickly, I can follow this book. I can't vouch for whether this theory of learning will work for everyone, and I don't even know if it will work for me, but I appreciate having it in my arsenal of learning tools for the next time I feel the urge to learn a language or pick up a new skill.
In this "how to learn a lot fast" book, Scott Young describes his experiences of ultralearning (learning information at great depth in a short amount of time while retaining the knowledge long-term) and provides the core principles that allow anyone to be able to do the same. He discusses his experience of completing an MIT computer science degree in one year, and learning multiple languages in a matter of months.
I started off reading this with a skeptical look on my face. It seemed like this was another book emphasizing shortcuts for things that you should not take shortcuts for. But upon reading it, I found parts of it quite compelling. For one thing, the author clearly did his research. He pulls on theories from psychology as well as great learners from the past. There are certainly interesting stories of people who have accomplished great feats of learning, and he humanizes them and makes it seem like it would be possible for anyone to accomplish these feats. He also very clearly (and with great depth) goes into the nine principles he employed when he undertook his ultralearning experience. In that regard, I found that there was nothing groundbreaking in here. Everything in this book is probably something you've heard before regarding learning theory. However, I did find it nice to have everything in one book, so that when I do want to learn something intensely and quickly, I can follow this book. I can't vouch for whether this theory of learning will work for everyone, and I don't even know if it will work for me, but I appreciate having it in my arsenal of learning tools for the next time I feel the urge to learn a language or pick up a new skill.
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Very nice. I especially like the idea that transfer is hard. To learn something yu have to do that thing or the clostest possible thing