Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart The Competition, And Accelerate Your Career By Scott Young
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The Main Idea
Is it really possible to get an MIT-level education without attending MIT? Or to learn a new language to the point of becoming fluent and conversant in just three months? Or to develop your own video game from scratch and make it a commercial success without being a professional game developer working for a big studio?
The answer to these and similar questions is an unqualified "Yes". In fact, there is an entire culture of people who have achieved these and other compelling goals on the basis of their self-education projects. These are the ultralearners.
"Ultralearning" is a strategy for acquiring skills and knowledge in a self-directed and intense manner. You make a decision about what you want to learn and then undertake concentrated learning activities which push you to your limits and compress your learning into the shortest feasible time.
Ultralearning can be used to accelerate the career you already have, to transition to the career you always wanted to have, or to rescue your career by adding new hard skills that are more valuable. Ultralearning is the very best way to deal with a changing world.
There are nine principles that are involved in running successful ultralearning projects. Master them and you can learn anything you set your mind to. This is the ultimate competitive advantage of the future, because no matter what happens, you'll be able to learn and adapt.
The world belongs to the ultralearners. Join their ranks by mastering the art of learning hard things quickly. It will serve you well.
The Ultralearning Strategy
Principle #1 — Metalearning — Draw a map first. Start any ultralearning project by learning what is the most effective way to learn the subject or acquire the skill you're after. Figure out how to learn efficiently.
Principle #2 — Focus — Sharpen your knife. Carve out chunks of time where you can concentrate and focus on what you're trying to learn consistently well.
Principle #3 — Directness — Go straight ahead. Learn by doing the things you're trying to become good at. Don't trade hands-on experience for other more convenient alternatives.
Principle #4 — Drill — Attack your weakest point. Break complex skills into their component parts and then be ruthless about improving your weakest points. Master the component parts and then reassemble them.
Principle #5 — Retrieval — Test to learn. Use the testing process to learn more as you go along. Always test yourself before you feel confident and push yourself to recall information, not just review it.
Principle #6 — Feedback — Don't dodge the punches. Put aside your ego and look for the harshest feedback you can find. Extract the signal from the noise and pay attention to what that feedback highlights you need to learn.
Principle #7 — Retention — Don't fill a leaky bucket. Be aware and understand what you're consistently forgetting and do something about it. Learn to remember things not just for now but forever.
Principle #8 — Intuition — Dig deep first, then build up. Play and explore to develop your intuition and work to understand what you learn. Don't resort to memorization tricks but get to know your subject deeply.
Principle #9 — Experiment — Explore outside your comfort zone. Don't lose sight of the fact you can't become a true master of your subject by following the paths trodden by others. Explore possibilities others have not imagined.
About The Author
Scott Young is a writer and business owner. In 2012, he ran his own self-directed education project where in twelve months and for less than $2,000, he was able to learn how to code sufficiently well that he could pass the same final exams that MIT computer science graduates are required to pass at the end of their four-year degree programs. To achieve this, Scott Young used open-source computer science lectures available online along with his own self-organized learning activities and exercises. His TEDx talk about his learning approach has been viewed more than half a million times. To further refine his learning methodology, Scott Young then went on to learn four languages in twelve months. Scott Young is a graduate of the University of Manitoba and Montpellier Business School.
Summaries.Com Editor's Thoughts
I loved the big idea of this book that when it comes to education, there is more than one way to get things done. The idea of getting an MIT level education without attending university is interesting in and of itself.
Scott Young is not against educational institutions at all, but he does suggest that they are locked into their traditional approaches rather than on the lookout for faster, better, and cheaper ways to provide an educational experience. As the author points out, in one year and for less than $2,000, he achieved a level of technical proficiency which would have required four years and cost more than $250,000 if he took the conventional path.
Scott Young is also points out that the university experience provides networking opportunities and friendships that can be incredibly valuable over the course of a career. He also likes the option of having professors and others mentor you and provide valuable introductions and so on. All of that is value added by colleges, but the lingering thought still remains that there might be better and more cost effective ways to provide those educational add-ons as well.
Still, for those of us who don't run a college or university, it's very clear that self-education is the driver of success for the future. The world is changing rapidly and the only way to adapt is to always be learning. Ultralearning is a great skill to acquire. Being able to drive your own learning programs will be important in the years and decades ahead. Never stop learning.
Now A Wall Street Journal Bestseller.
Learn a new talent, stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and adapt to whatever the workplace throws your way. Ultralearning offers nine principles to master hard skills quickly. This is the essential guide to future-proof your career and maximize your competitive advantage through self-education.
In these tumultuous times of economic and technological change, staying ahead depends on continual self-education—a lifelong mastery of fresh ideas, subjects, and skills. If you want to accomplish more and stand apart from everyone else, you need to become an ultralearner.
The challenge of learning new skills is that you think you already know how best to learn, as you did as a student, so you rerun old routines and old ways of solving problems. To counter that, Ultralearning offers powerful strategies to break you out of those mental ruts and introduces new training methods to help you push through to higher levels of retention.
Scott H. Young incorporates the latest research about the most effective learning methods and the stories of other ultralearners like himself—among them Benjamin Franklin, chess grandmaster Judit Polgár, and Nobel laureate physicist Richard Feynman, as well as a host of others, such as little-known modern polymath Nigel Richards, who won the French World Scrabble Championship—without knowing French.
Young documents the methods he and others have used to acquire knowledge and shows that, far from being an obscure skill limited to aggressive autodidacts, ultralearning is a powerful tool anyone can use to improve their career, studies, and life.
Ultralearning explores this fascinating subculture, shares a proven framework for a successful ultralearning project, and offers insights into how you can organize and exe - cute a plan to learn anything deeply and quickly, without teachers or budget-busting tuition costs.
Whether the goal is to be fluent in a language (or ten languages), earn the equivalent of a college degree in a fraction of the time, or master multiple tools to build a product or business from the ground up, the principles in Ultralearning will guide you to success.
Editorial Reviews … Review
“How do you master a difficult subject more quickly than by sitting through years of classes? Read Ultralearning for specific directions on structuring and absorbing complex topics in record time. This short book provides you with a step-by-step guide to becoming an ultra fast learner.” (Robert Pozen, author of Extreme Productivity and Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management)
“Ultralearning is the best book on learning I’ve ever read. It’s a beautifully written, brilliantly researched, and immediately useful masterpiece. If you are looking for the magic match to help light your learning, Ultralearning is it. If you want to learn anything, do yourself a favor and read this book. Now.” (Barbara Oakley, author of A Mind for Numbers and co-author and co-instructor of Learning How to Learn)
This book is an invaluable tool to help you master complicated skills in a short period of time. Read Ultralearning and level up your life! (Chris Guillebeau, bestselling author of The $100 Startup and The Happiness of Pursuit)
“Ultralearning is like a superpower in our competitive economy. Read this book! It will change your life.” (Cal Newport, author of Digital Minimalism and Deep Work)
“A truly great book about learning. Riveting, useful, practical, and applicable to anyone ready to learn something at their own pace. Ultralearning shows you exactly how to learn better than you thought possible.” (Derek Sivers, author of Anything You Want)
From The Back Cover
Learn a new talent, stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and adapt to whatever the workplace throws your way. Ultralearning offers nine principles to master hard skills quickly. This is the essential guide to future-proof your career and maximize your competitive advantage through self-education.
In these tumultuous times of economic and technological change, staying ahead depends on continual self-education—a lifelong mastery of fresh ideas, subjects, and skills. If you want to accomplish more and stand apart from everyone else, you need to become an ultralearner.
The challenge of learning new skills is that you think you already know how best to learn, as you did as a student, so you rerun old routines and old ways of solving problems. To counter that, Ultralearning offers powerful strategies to break you out of those mental ruts and introduces new training methods to help you push through to higher levels of retention.
Scott H. Young incorporates the latest research about the most effective learning methods and the stories of other ultralearners like himself—among them Benjamin Franklin, chess grandmaster Judit Polgár, and Nobel laureate physicist Richard Feynman, as well as a host of others, such as little-known modern polymath Nigel Richards, who won the French World Scrabble Championship—without knowing French.
Young documents the methods he and others have used to acquire knowledge and shows that, far from being an obscure skill limited to aggressive autodidacts, ultralearning is a powerful tool anyone can use to improve their career, studies, and life.
Ultralearning explores this fascinating subculture, shares a proven framework for a successful ultralearning project, and offers insights into how you can organize and execute a plan to learn anything deeply and quickly, without teachers or budget-busting tuition costs.
Whether the goal is to be fluent in a language (or ten languages), earn the equivalent of a college degree in a fraction of the time, or master multiple tools to build a product or business from the ground up, the principles in Ultralearning will guide you to success.
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