Episode Details

Scott Young is the author of the soon-to-be bestselling book Ultralearning. He’s also a writer & blogger, a programmer, traveler, and as he puts it, “an avid reader of interesting things.” For the last ten years Scott has been experimenting to find out how to learn and think better. He is known for learning the 4 year curriculum at MIT (one of the toughest schools for science and technology in the world) in under 12 months without taking any classes there, he’s traveled the world and at one point challenged himself to go a year without English and in the process learned four languages in that year: Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, and Korean.

Needless to say, Scott knows a thing or two about undertaking incredibly difficult learning challenges. And in our conversation Scott and I discuss the principles he outlines in his new book Ultralearning that you can follow to develop and master this skill and thus become better (and more effective) at learning just about anything you want or need to in order to achieve your most important goals.

In today’s freelance economy where knowledge is a ubiquitous commoddity and employees are essentially disposable and replaceable within days, there is perhaps no more important skill than having the ability to learn new things quickly to adapt to the ever changing technology and landscape we face every single day. And that skill is ULTRALEARNING.

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Here’s What You’ll Learn:

• How Scott’s difficulty with learning led him to become an ultralearner
• The method that you choose to learn with will change yours results
• Pushing your learning bubble of comfort
• What beliefs do you have that re keeping you from chasing your goals?
• Approaching meta-learning concepts for the first time
• Mapping out how you are going to learn a new skill rather than approaching it cold
• The path towards the same goal is different for different people
• Placing yourself in a position with an invaluable skill, so that you have a say in how you are paid, and what your time is worth

Useful Resources Mentioned:

ScottthYoung.com

Scott’s Blog

Ultralearning

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