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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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The usual “three pages of ideas blown out into a book”. Lots of tangentially related historical anecdotes, but nearly zero information on improving learning. Unless you’ve never ever learnt anything on your own.
The usual “three pages of ideas blown out into a book”. Lots of tangentially related historical anecdotes, but nearly zero information on improving learning. Unless you’ve never ever learnt anything on your own.
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
Challenges everything you think you know about learning. Loved it.
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.
informative
inspiring
fast-paced
Some interesting ideas, but more of journal of an experiment than a how to guide. The central message seems to be if you want to learn something bad enough and put in the time, you can learn hard things if you have a good plan with caveats. A lot of the material had I heard or read before in other places. I finished the book because it was short and I wanted to give it a fair shot.
informative
reflective
medium-paced
medium-paced
challenging
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
there are really some good nuggets in here, but that's why it's 3 stars: JUST NUGGETS. i think the author could have relayed this information with the same depth in about a quarter of the time it took to read this book.
if i recommend this to someone, i would also recommend reading the titles and then skimming :/
if i recommend this to someone, i would also recommend reading the titles and then skimming :/
A fascinating book, which looks at the gaming of traditional education and looking to disrupt traditional pathways into higher education.
This unorthodoxy may trigger a fascination for learning that conventional methods may suppress.
The idea of real world learning, for the practice of gaining new language expertise seems much more attractive than learning in an educational institution - with maybe better results?
This unorthodoxy may trigger a fascination for learning that conventional methods may suppress.
The idea of real world learning, for the practice of gaining new language expertise seems much more attractive than learning in an educational institution - with maybe better results?