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Blog postIdeas are powerful. Arriving at the right time, they can alter the entire direction of your life. But ideas also hide in the background, acting as assumptions. Quietly influencing your decisions, whether they’re true or false. Looking back, I can think of a number of ideas that shaped my life. Some are only obvious in […]
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Blog postRecently, I’ve had an interest in learning more biology. Some of that curiosity is pandemic-inspired. Biology is playing an outsized role in all of our lives these days.
Yet much of the interest predates our current crisis. As a teenager, I really enjoyed books like The Selfish Gene and The Red Queen. Evolutionary biology revealing a hidden pattern in the universe.
Last year, I stumbled across a course in Systems Biology taught by Uri Alon. Biology is often portrayed as someth1 week ago Read more -
Blog postRecently, I’ve gotten a lot of emails from students asking the right way to take notes. As I’ve been answering them, I realized that the question of note-taking neatly encapsulates a lot of deeper thinking about the right way to learn things.
Instead of explaining how to take notes, then, I’d like to explain how I think about taking notes. This, it turns out, has a lot to say about how to think about learning anything.
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Blog postA reader emailed me about a difficult exam he was facing. The test was for a prestigious civil service job in his country. Get one of those jobs, and you’re set for life. Unfortunately, competition was also steep. About four hundred people compete, and only the best scorer on the test gets the spot. Applicants […]
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Blog postIt’s been quite a year. In January, I became a father. In March, the entire world went into lockdown. I also wrote some essays.
Here’s some of the best writing I did in the last twelve months:
Do the Real Thing. Success largely boils down to a simple distinction. It’s glaringly obvious once you see it, but also easy to find ingenious ways of ignoring it: do the real thing and stop doing fake alternatives. An Interesting Book You Probably Shouldn’t Read. My deep dive into one of th4 weeks ago Read more -
Blog postIn my book, Ultralearning, I argued in favor of directness in learning. Given a concrete objective (speaking a language, passing an exam, becoming proficient at a particular skill), the way you practice ought to match the intended use. Transfer is hard. The more we can avoid depending on far-transfer to make our learning successful, the better we’ll do.
A reasonable-sounding extension of this idea is that learning broadly is itself a bad idea. “Useless” knowledge won’t transfer, so wh1 month ago Read more -
Blog postRecently, I published my Complete Guide to Motivation. The guide covers the research landscape on motivation from psychological, neuroscientific and economic perspectives. One of the key researchers I highlighted was Piers Steel, a leading expert on procrastination.
Since I found his research findings so helpful in my own understanding of procrastination, I invited him to sit down with me to chat about it. What follows is our deeper look into the research behind motivation and procras1 month ago Read more -
Blog postSometimes the boring skills in life turn out to be the most important.
Case in point: the market for being really good at Excel is much larger than you think. I have a friend who does lucrative consulting work mostly on his ability to be better than you at Excel. Machine learning is trendy, but most organizations don’t need someone to run convolutional neural nets—they need someone to work spreadsheets.
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Blog postLearning is a lot easier when it’s interesting. And it’s interesting, to a large extent, because you’re curious about the subject. Yes, the carrot of career opportunity and stick of exam failures can motivate. But if you really want to learn something, nothing beats curiosity.
Yet it’s boredom, not curiosity, that dominates student life. Research shows that students report feeling bored much of the time in class. This makes it harder to pay attention and more painful to learn.
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Blog postRecently, I shared my list of foundational practices—the basic things everyone should do to live better. Of course, my choices are personal. Your list might differ a little from mine.
Most people, however, tended to agree with my choices. Foundational practices should be obvious. If they weren’t, there would be some controversy over how useful they are.
Yet there was one practice that a lot of people admitted to not doing often. People exercised, read, tracked their spending a2 months ago Read more
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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.
En un mundo en constante evolución, es imprescindible adquirir sin cesar nuevos conocimientos y habilidades en el trabajo y en cualquier aspecto de nuestra vida.
Ultralearning te descubrirá cómo aprender de una forma rápida y efectiva.
¿Quieres cambiar de trabajo o impulsar tu carrera? Ultralearning te ofrece la estrategia para dominar las habilidades que te permitirán ampliar tus horizontes profesionales.
¿Qué cosas siempre has querido hacer pero el miedo te lo ha impedido? ¿Te imaginas que finalmente pudieras hablar inglés, tocar la guitarra, dibujar, hablar en público o programar?
Con la estrategia correcta, puedes aprender rápidamente cualquier cosa y adquirir una mayor confianza en ti mismo. Con Ultralearning, podrás:
1. Aprender nuevas habilidades para reinventar tu carrera profesional.
2. Mejorar tu manera de estudiar actual.
3. Identificar loque te ha funcionado en el pasado para poder aplicarlo en el futuro.
4. Adquirir confianza para vencer las dudas.
5. Aprender un nuevo idioma, a tocar un instrumento o cualquier habilidad que te abra nuevos caminos personales o posibilidades profesionales.
Reseñas:
«¿Cómo puede dominarse un tema difícil sin tener que asistir a clase durante años? Lee Ultralearning y descubrirás cómo adquirir nuevas habilidades en un tiempo récord.»
Robert Pozen, profesor de MIT Sloan School of Management
«Ultralearning es una lectura fascinante e inspiradora, una mina de oro de estrategias que te permiten aprender cualquier cosa muy deprisa.»
James Clear, autor de Hábitos atómicos
LA MEMORIA È UN TALENTO CHE PUOI COLTIVARE, IMPARARE È QUESTIONE DI METODO: DIVENTA UN ULTRALEARNER CON IL PROGRAMMA DI SCOTT YOUNG!
Fino a qualche anno fa una laurea universitaria rappresentava una garanzia per una brillante carriera. Oggi basta a malapena per mettere un piede nel mondo del lavoro. Le realtà professionali hanno subito un’accelerazione incredibile, la tecnologia ha rivoluzionato l’accesso all’informazione. Ma noi, invece di essere più efficienti, siamo sempre meno concentrati. Come si può restare al passo senza spendere tempo e soldi in corsi e aggiornamenti?
L’autore che ha completato il quadriennio del MIT in soli 12 mesi senza frequentare e ha imparato 4 lingue in un anno svela finalmente il suo metodo: per diventare padrone del proprio tempo, abbattere la competizione e accelerare la carriera!
I 9 PRINCIPI DEL METODO ULTRALEARNING:
1 Meta-apprendimento • 2 Concentrazione • 3 Esperienza diretta • 4 Esercizio mirato • 5 Recupero • 6 Feedback • 7 Memorizzazione • 8 Intuito • 9 Sperimentazione
Purtroppo quello che impariamo a scuola, all’università o nei corsi online spesso non è sufficiente per raggiungere il successo che desideriamo. Allora come possiamo padroneggiare materie difficili e impegnative senza dover frequentare anni e anni di lezioni? E poi sfruttarle brillantemente nel lavoro e nella vita di tutti i giorni? Scott H. Young ha studiato le prestazioni di premi Nobel e campioni di scacchi, di filosofi e leader, incorporando le scoperte più recenti sul funzionamento della memoria. Da questa ricerca nasce il Metodo Ultralearning: 9 principi fondamentali per un approccio rivoluzionario all’allenamento della mente e alla gestione del tempo. Per imparare e padroneggiare qualunque materia o competenza in tempo record – dal cinese alla fisica quantistica, dalla linguistica computazionale alla cultura generale di Chi vuol essere milionario?