ULTRALEARNING EB

Accelerate Your Career, Master Hard Skills and Outsmart the Competition

Scott H. Young

• Publisher: Thorsons
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9780008305710
• eBook ISBN: 9780008305727
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Business Skills

Future-proof your career and maximize your competitive advantage by learning the skill necessary to stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and adapt to whatever the workplace throws your way in this essential guide.

Faced with tumultuous economic times and rapid technological change, staying ahead in your career depends on continual learning—a lifelong mastery of new ideas, subjects, and skills. If you want to accomplish more and stand apart from everyone else, you need to become an ultralearner.

Scott Young incorporates the latest research about the most effective learning methods and the stories of other ultralearners like himself—among them Ben Franklin, Judit Polgar, and Richard Feynman, as well as a host of others, such as little-known modern polymaths like Nigel Richards who won the World Championship of French Scrabble—without knowing French.

Young documents the methods he and others have used 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 the nine principles behind every 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 skills to build a product or business from the ground up, the principles in Ultralearning will guide you to success.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword by James Clear
• Chapter 1: Can You Get an MIT Education Without Going to MIT?
• Chapter 2: Why Ultralearning Matters
• Chapter 3: How to Become an Ultralearner
• Chapter 4: Principle 1—Metalearning: First Draw a Map
• Chapter 5: Principle 2—Focus: Sharpen Your Knife
• Chapter 6: Principle 3—Directness: Go Straight Ahead
• Chapter 7: Principle 4—Drill: Attack Your Weakest Point
• Chapter 8: Principle 5—Retrieval: Test to Learn
• Chapter 9: Principle 6—Feedback: Don’t Dodge the Punches
• Chapter 10: Principle 7—Retention: Don’t Fill a Leaky Bucket
• Chapter 11: Principle 8—Intuition: Dig Deep Before Building Up
• Chapter 12: Principle 9—Experimentation: Explore Outside Your Comfort Zone
• Chapter 13: Your First Ultralearning Project
• Chapter 14: An Unconventional Education
• Appendix
• Footnotes
• Notes
• Index
• Praise
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• About the Publisher