Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career

The book Ultralearning teaches the reader how to learn better and get better results from what they are trying to learn. "Ultralearning is a strategy for acquiring skills and knowledge that is both self-directed and intense."I read this book more from the perspective of a teacher rather than a learner. I may use the concepts at some point to do my own ultralearning projects, but since I am creating content to teach people new skills, I'm looking for ways to make my content more engaging. I want to know the best ways to teach people and help them learn what I'm teaching.One of the things I really liked about this book was that the author provided practical information about ultralearning. He didn't just present a bunch of concepts; he gave strategies and tactics for getting results.The Nine Principles of UltralearningHere are the nine principles of ultralearning, along with some things I've learned about each principle:1. Metaleaning: First Draw a MapLearn how to learn a topic. Find out how others who successfully learned the topic learned it. Don't just try the first tactic you discover because other tactics may help you learn more effectively.2. Focus: Sharpen Your KnifeFocus on starting your project. Focus on sustaining progress on your project. Focus on ensuring that your learning is directed at what you need to learn to increase knowledge, not just make yourself feel good by focusing on the basics.3. Directness: Go Straight AheadLearn by using the new skill you're trying to acquire in a situation similar to or exactly like the situation you would actually use the skill. For example, learning a new language is more direct when you try to use the language in conversation with someone rather than just listening to lessons or using fun apps.4. Drill: Attach Your Weakest PointKnowing what you really need to learn and deliberately practicing. Focus more on the areas that you are deficient in to improve your weakest skills. Practice an isolated component.5. Retrieval: Test to LearnLearning something doesn't do you any good if you can't remember it when you need it. Testing yourself on what you've learned is best done by doing retrieval exercises or tests rather than referring to books or content about the subject. Do your best to extract the information you are learning from your memory to help form long-term memories of the content.6. Feedback: Don't Dodge the PunchesFind ways to get honest feedback from your learning initiatives through tests. It's easy to get feedback that stokes your ego, but this feedback does not help you grow and learn. Some feedback is noise and is not helpful. Other feedback is a signal and can help you build up the skill you're trying to learn by letting you know about things you need to improve upon.7. Retention: Don't Fill a Leaky BucketSpending a lot of time learning something is almost useless if you don't retain what you've learned. Some things are essential to keep in your memory, while others can be looked up if needed in the future.8. Intuition: Dig Deep Before Building UpKnowing a skill so well that you can apply it to different situations. Having such a deep understanding of a subject, you know all the possibilities to solve a problem and when to use which solution.9. Experimentation: Explore Outside Your Comfort ZoneExperimentation helps you learn because it forces you to try new things to accomplish a task or goal. Experimentation expands your knowledge and understanding of the topic in unexpected ways. Experimentation is accomplished by using different resources, techniques, or styles.Some of my favorite highlights in the book:• "Passive learning creates knowledge. Active practice creates skill."• "Your deepest moments of happiness don't come from doing easy things; they come from realizing your potential and overcoming your own limiting beliefs about yourself."• "What could you learn if you took the right approach to make it successful? Who could you become?"• "Flow is the enjoyable state between boredom and frustration; when a task is neither too hard nor too easy."• When learning, "Sometimes what's the most fun isn't very effective and what's effective isn't easy."• "…enjoyment tends to come from being good at things."• "…one of the most important educational tasks is to teach self-education."• "It is when one learns to do something that nobody else can do that learning becomes truly valuable."• "The better one gets, the more one recognizes how much better one could become."Of course, there's a lot more in the book, and I have more questions than answers after reading it. Since ultralearning is a personal thing, I'm not sure I'll be able to apply it strictly to teaching others, but I've developed some ideas about how to improve my content by reading this book.If you truly want to master a skill, you may want to check out Ultralearning and follow the book's principles, tactics, and strategies to start your own ultralearning project.

As my title said, it is a good way to slap my face and refocus. This kind of book gives me hints of potential solutions. For someone who has ADHD, this book could assist and realign my hyperfocus. The book gave me the tools that I needed the most. So now I’m super curious about the project assignment that the book just gave to me. It could be something that you need too. A nudge…just saying

The media could not be loaded.  Level up! Ultralearning (2019) by Scott H. Young is an excellent guide on intense, self-directed learning. Self-directed learning is method of rapid learning that leads to skill acquisition.A formal education will make you a living. Self education learning will make you a fortune, the saying goes. Directness refers to converting knowledge into skills. "Passive learning creates knowledge. Active practice creates skill," quotes Scott H. Young.Are you willing commit time to intense bursts of methodical studying time? Do you want to get better at life? "What's effective isn't easy, and what's easy isn't effective," quotes Scott H. Young.Ultralearning is a skill needed more and more as technology polarizes the skill divide. Ultralearning by Scott H. Young is a fresh dive into some serious mental engagement.Core techniques of ultralearning strategy are metalearning (learn how to learn, bird's eye view, emulate other people), focus, directness, drilling, testing, retrieval, intuition, and experimentation.Tistan DeMontebello, a musician undertook a journey to do 80-100 speeches in 7 months. His journey is studied, emphasizing the importance of mentors, deliberate practice, feedback, recall, and experimentation. A jeopardy contestant is also studied. The artist VIncent, Van Goh was studied for his sheer will at experimenting with thousands of works.Ultralearning is a book about immersion, and developing a smart learning strategy. It's about mastering hard skills quickly. This self-help book is about psychology, habits, mentorship, feedback, and productivity.Ultralearning is about personal development, education, and self-actualization. We want to gain intuitive mastery. Construct and reconstruct problems from different angles.

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Ultralearning by Scott H. Young is a transformative guide for anyone looking to master new skills efficiently and effectively in an increasingly fast-paced world. The book introduces readers to the concept of “ultralearning”—a self-directed, intense, and disciplined approach to acquiring knowledge and expertise.

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I always read the 5 stars reviews and the 1 stars reviews. I was a little discouraged when most of the 1 stars said "nothing new, this is too obvious" but I bought it anyway and I am gratefull I did.If you dont have any knowledg about ultralearning this is the only book you need to buy. It is a practical guide to start your own ultra learning proyect.

O título faz parecer ser um livro de auto ajuda. Não deixa de ser na medida em que é sobre técnicas que vão lhe ajudar a obter melhores resultados em suas pesquisas.Entretanto vai MUITO além disto, mas muito além mesmo: é um verdadeiro estudo de epistemologia e muito bem fundamentado, com diversas referências bibliográficas e mesmo personagens reais que, ao serem pesquisados, enriquecem ainda mais a leitura.A leitura é muito interessante e segue os princípios pregados pelo autor. São apresentados princípios de aprendizagem e cada capítulo representa um destes princípios. Começa com um exemplo prático, ilustrado por uma história real de alguém (uma das personagens) e, na sequência, este exemplo é analisado expondo quais foram os acertos e estratégias seguidas por aquela pessoa para obter sucesso no aprendizado.Uma das melhores leituras que fiz em 2019 sem dúvidas.Doido para sair em português para que possamos ter estas ideias melhor discutidas aqui no Brasil.

If you wish to learn a subject effectively and efficiently, you would be crazy not to use the power of ultralearning.Interestingly, I started ultralearning before I even came across Scott Young. I love putting myself through extreme challenges, and my first experience with ultralearning was my Winter Break Challenge. During this time, I dedicated a minimum of 10 hours a day to studying C++ through a textbook and ended the challenge with a thorough understanding of C++ and OOP concepts, ideas that aren't taught until the 2nd and 3rd years of computer science courses at my high school.This experience completely changed my perspective on education. That same year, I attended the Grade 9 computer science course and ended up dropping out from computer science for the following year because the course was painstakingly slow and I hadn't learned anything new by the end of the semester.In around 2 weeks, I used ultralearning to learn more than I did in a whole 5-month semester.You can imagine my excitement and amazement when I discovered Scott Young around 2 months later. He had the same mentality of self-education as I did and put himself through these crazy ultralearning challenges that I highly admire and someday wish to replicate.To think that I had never heard of him before then; it still baffles me.Fast forward 6 months later: an announcement about Scott Young's upcoming book appears in my inbox. Ultralearning was a book dedicated to explaining the practice I had stumbled upon and came to fall in love with. My most anticipated book didn't disappoint, and after finishing it, I can confidently say that it is my favourite book, perhaps even competing for a spot as my favourite work of writing.In his book, Scott Young lists the core principles of ultralearning and describes them in detail. However, what makes this book different from the rest is through thought-provoking examples and connections. As James Clear mentions in the foreword, "I respect him not only for the quality of his writing but also for the simple fact that he is a practitioner of his own ideas."Experience is a major concept throughout this book. Scott presents case studies of people who have implemented these ultralearning principles, including himself and his experience with his own ambitious projects. Instead of simply stating observations, he breaks down the successes of these projects and backed by research, he formulates a detailed analysis of how these projects became a success and how to ensure that your own project follows in these footsteps.Even after having completed my own successful ultralearning challenge, I learned and gained an immense amount of new information from this book. I didn't really dig deep into why my Winter Break challenge became a success, but through this book, I came to connect with my behaviours during these 2 weeks and relate to the times where I've implemented these ultralearning principles that led to such an outcome. Admittedly, these principles also exposed the core reasons why I've never been able to top my Winter Break challenge ever since.A friend recently mentioned the inspiration he gained after hearing about my challenge, and I can only imagine how he would feel if he encountered Scott's pursuits. Inspiration is a word that really resonates with Scott's work. Talking about an idea is one thing, implementing it is another. Inspiration arises not through thought, but through action.Before my change to self-education, I settled for doing well in school for the sake of having a secure path for my future. The issue is, security doesn't translate into success nor fulfillment. Ever since my challenge and coming across Scott Young, I've since aspired to become an advocate of self-education through experience. Ultralearning has become my passion and fulfillment. Just like Scott Young, I hope to demonstrate the power of ultralearning not just by theorizing what it can accomplish, but through demonstrating what it has accomplished. In short, ultralearning changed my life.If you want to get inspired to change your life through intense self-education projects and stand out from the crowd, I cannot emphasize this enough: read this book and apply its concepts.