September 16, 2019

Are You Intimidated by "Ultralearning"? Scott Young is Here to Reassure Us All

1 hour 15 minutes

Bestselling author Scott Young presents his book "Ultralearning".

Scott is well known for his project called "The Year Without English", which involved a year of full immersion and learning 4 languages. Intense, right? He thought so too, and became fascinated with this concept

"There was a look on the plane, and that was our last time speaking English for a year."

Scott's recently been obsessed with intensive personal learning projects (which he calls "aggressive" but that does NOT mean you need to be some kind of macho muscle man). What matters is this: the 9 principles of successful self-directed learning.

Metalearning (this is what you sort of heard about in episode 144 and Scott brings in new perspectives)

Directness

Focus

Drill

Retrieval

Feedback

Retention

Intuition

Experimentation

Thank you to Scott himself for this episode introduction.

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Links:

Ultralearning from Amazon.com
Ultralearning from Amazon.co.uk
Ultralearning : Accelerate Your Career, Master Hard Skills and Outsmart the Competition: Scott H. Young: 9780008305703: hive.co.uk — Book order/pre-order in the UK through Hive -- support your local independent book shop
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