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Ultralearning : master hard skills, outsmart the competition, and accelerate your career / Scott H. Young ; foreword by James Clear.

by Young, Scott H.

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Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2019.

371.30281 Y681u

9780062852687 (hc.)

Alternate title:

Master hard skills, outsmart the competition, and accelerate your career

xv, 283 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-275) and index.

Can you get an MIT eductation without going to MIT? -- Why ultralearning matters -- How to become an ultralearner -- Principle 1 : metalearning : first draw a map -- Principle 2 : focus : sharpen your knife -- Principle 3 : directness : go straight ahead -- Principle 4 : drill : attack your weakest point -- Principle 5 : retrieval : test to learn -- Principle 6 : feedback : don't dodge the punches -- Principle 7 : retention : don't fill a leaky bucket -- Principle 8 : intuition : dig deep before building up -- Principle 9 : experimentation : explore outside your comfort zone -- Your first ultralearning project -- An uncoventional 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 Polgar, 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 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 tools to build a product or business from the ground up, the principles in Ultralearning will guide you to success."--Inside cover.

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