Ultralearning

Now a Wall Street Journal bestseller. Learn a new talent, stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and adapt to whatever the workplace throws your way. Ultralearning EPB offers nine principles to master hard skills quickly. This is the essential guide to future-proof your career and maximize your competitive advantage through accelerated 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 EPB offers powerful learning 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 self-directed learning 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 EPB 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 EPB will guide you to success. This practical guide details the nine core principles of ultralearning: - Actionable Strategies: Go beyond theory with the nine principles of ultralearning, a step-by-step method for breaking down complex subjects and mastering hard skills in record time.- Focus and Retention: Discover how to break out of mental ruts, eliminate distractions, and apply powerful training methods to remember what you learn for good.- Direct Practice and Feedback: Learn by doing with project-based learning and immersive techniques that provide immediate, high-value feedback to accelerate your skill development.- Real-World Case Studies: Learn from the successes of other ultralearners, from Benjamin Franklin to modern polymaths who master languages and complex skills without formal training.- Career Acceleration: Future-proof your career by developing the ability to learn anything quickly, a critical skill for adapting to economic and technological change.

Scott H. 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.