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Scott Young is a writer who undertakes interesting self-education projects, such as attempting to learn MIT’s four-year computer science curriculum in twelve months and learning four languages in one year. He lives in Vancouver Canada.
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Blog postProductivity forms the backbone of any self-improvement effort. If you can’t organize your time, accomplish your tasks and complete your projects, what chance do you have to reach any other goal you’ve set for yourself? At the same time, few topics are so frequently misunderstood. Overwork is often equated with productivity. Burnout, stress and exhaustion, […]
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Blog postOne-on-one tutoring is one of the most effective ways to learn anything. In his famous paper on the “2 sigma problem” in educational research, Benjamin Bloom called for a search for group teaching interventions that approximated the efficacy of tutoring:
However, the most striking of the findings is that under the best learning conditions we can devise (tutoring), the average student is 2 sigma [standard deviations] above the average control student taught under conventional group met1 week ago Read more -
Blog postHow often have you read a book, taken a course or listened to a podcast and . . . promptly forgotten everything the minute you switch your attention to something else?
Being able to retain what you learn is a central difficulty in our era of information abundance. Too many great ideas get wasted, simply because we forget them when we might need them.
Tiago Forte’s new book, Building a Second Brain, details one strategy for dealing with this problem: taking better notes. I rece2 weeks ago Read more -
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Blog postIf I made you take the final exam for a class you studied a decade ago, would you pass?
The unfortunate truth is that, except for knowledge we actively use in daily life, much of what we learn is beyond our powers of recall. But that doesn’t mean it has been erased from our memories.
Why We Forget Listen to this article Early theories of forgetting were based on decay. These theories assume unused memories fade with time like the yellowing of a photograph. The idea has some in3 weeks ago Read more -
Blog postSuppose you’re learning a skill like algebra, programming or drawing. Consider two different strategies for studying:
Examples first. Before you try anything on your own, study examples of how other people solve similar problems. Problems first. Before looking at any examples, try to solve the problem independently. If you fail or don’t get very far, then learn how others approach it. Which strategy works better?
Although this sounds like a simple question, it’s hotly debated.1 month ago Read more -
Blog postPedigree is an eye-opening book. Author and sociologist Lauren Rivera looks into the recruitment practices in elite law, banking, and consulting firms. Rivera’s unsettling portrait provides much ammunition for those who would argue that meritocracy is a myth.
In particular, Rivera finds:
Alma mater is all-important. Elite firms draw from “core” and “target” schools. Students from core schools are wooed aggressively by firms. You might squeeze in from a target school if you’re near2 months ago Read more -
Blog postAbout a year ago, I started a research project focused on the transfer of learning. Given the often disappointing evidence for learning transfer between the classroom and the real world, I was eager to dig into the research on apprenticeships and learning by doing.
But the research turned out to be more complicated (and interesting!) than I had expected. I wrote a little about some of the difficulties with my original hypothesis here. Since then, I’ve been exploring broadly to build a2 months ago Read more -
Blog postNext week, I’m opening a new session of my popular course, Rapid Learner. Registration will begin on Monday, April 25th and closes on Friday, April 29th. Below is a lesson drawn from the material I teach in Rapid Learner. If you find it helpful, be sure to check out the full course.
The foundation for effective learning is practice. You get good at things by doing them. Yet within this simple observation is a maze of complexity. How should you practice to get the most improvement with2 months ago Read more -
Blog postLast week, I asked readers to send me their questions about learning, life, or… anything really. I got over one hundred replies! Here are a few I’d like to share:
Gary asks:
“What are your morning and evening routines?”
Listen to this article I don’t have anything fancy in terms of routines.
My mornings, these days, usually start at seven. I have coffee, my wife and I get our son ready for daycare, and I go to the office. My evenings are usually dinner and family3 months ago Read more -
Blog postHow do we solve hard problems? What are we thinking about as we work? What influences whether we find an answer or remain stuck forever?
These are the questions Allen Newell and Herbert Simon set out to address in their landmark 1972 book, Human Problem Solving. Their work has had an enormous influence on psychology, artificial intelligence, and economics.
How do you get reliable data for complicated problems? Here’s the basic strategy behind HPS:
Find a category of proble3 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?