In this episode, Scott H. Young, author of Ultralearning, talks with us about how he uses visualization techniques for his learning, memory and critical thinking.

Special thanks to Xina Gooding Broderick (Guest on Season 8) for connecting Mike with Scott!

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Running Order

• Intro
• Welcome
• Who is Scott?
• Scott’s Origin Story
• The value of human-drawn, analog images
• The overlap of learning, memory, and visualization
• The challenges of expressing ideas with images
• Scott’s 30-day portrait drawing challenge
• What Scott does to cope with pandemic:
  • Interesting, fun projects that are under your control
• Sponsor: Concepts app
• Tools
• Tips
• Where to find Scott
• Outro

Links

Amazon affiliate links support the Sketchnote Army Podcast.

• Scott’s Website
• Scott’s Articles
• Scott’s Book: Ultralearning
• Ultralearning Podcast
• Scott on Twitter
• Scott on Instagram
• Scott on LinkedIn
• Method of Loci
• The Feynman Technique
• Voltage Visualized with Water
• 3Blue1Brown
• Book: Productive Thinking by Max Wertheimer
• Robert Bjork: Two Components of Memory
• Scott’s 30-Day Portrait Drawing Challenge
• David Jameson: Portrait Drawing – The Complete Online Course
• Book: Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
• Life of Focus Course

Tools

Amazon affiliate links support the Sketchnote Army Podcast.

• Pilot Drawing Pens
• Caran D'ache Luminance Colored Pencil Set
• iPad Pro
• Apple Pencil
• Procreate

Tips

1. Develop your own visual language
2. Don’t worry about your stuff looking good!
3. Look for a visual picture to represent an idea to help your learning

Credits

• Producer: Alec Pulianas
• Theme music: Jon Schiedermayer

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