Episode #370: Ultralearning with Scott H Young

Scott H Young is a writer, programmer, traveler and avid reader of interesting things. For the last ten years he has been experimenting to find out how to learn and think better.

He’s the author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller, Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate…

Whether it’s learning a new talent, staying relevant, reinventing yourself, or adapting to whatever the workplace throws your way, Scott’s book offers nine principles to master hard skills quickly.

We explored why self-education is so important today, common learning pitfalls, and techniques you can apply to accelerate your own learning efforts, including a simple method that can help you to increase your retention by a factor of four.

With that, I bring you the one and only, Scott H Young.

Topics Discussed:

- What is ultralearning?

- How Scott got into learning about learning

- Why ongoing self-education is so important today

- What’s wrong with our old ways of learning?

- How Scott completed a 4 year MIT program in just 12 months

- The power of retrieval

- Common learning pitfalls to avoid

- How to increase retention through spaced repetition

- Why we should attack our weaknesses

- The power of a learning project