Ultralearning

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

By: Scott H. Young

Narrated by: Scott H. Young

Future-proof your career and maximize your competitive advantage by learning the skill necessary to stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and adapt to whatever the workplace throws your way in this essential guide that goes beyond the insights of popular works such as Extreme Productivity, Deep Work, Peak, and Make It Stick.

Faced with tumultuous economic times and rapid technological change, staying ahead in your career depends on continual learning—a lifelong mastery of new ideas, subjects, and skills. If you want to accomplish more and stand apart from everyone else, you need to become an ultralearner.

Scott Young incorporates the latest research about the most effective learning methods and the stories of other ultralearners like himself—among them Ben Franklin, Judit Polgar, and Richard Feynman, as well as a host of others, such as little-known modern polymaths like Nigel Richards who won the World Championship of French Scrabble—without knowing French.

Young documents the methods he and others have used 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 the seven principles behind every 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 skills to build a product or business from the ground up, the principles in Ultralearning will guide you to success.

Excellent book about a great skill

If you are a self-teaching person who loves to continually learn and master things, this book will be useful for you. I'm already an auto-didactic person, and I still learned a lot of strategies and tricks. Highly recommended.

An awesome listen!!!

I personally believe that this book gave me a good insight into learning and acquisition of new knowledge...
Ultra-, Meta-, or whatever the prefix used is immaterial... this book gives step by step in-depth knowledge on how to gather knowledge and learn, unlearn and relearn new material...
Kudos to you Scott!!!
By the way, I went through the whole book in one setting!!!!

Great book

Ultra learning hits a lot of points that in retrospect seem obvious but constantly illude people who are trying to get really good at something with a minimal amount of time invested. As a polyglot, I know the core concept all too well. So many of my colleagues have spent years trying to learn new skills off of flashcards alone. But using the ultra learning method, I was able to become nearly fluent in 1/4th the time. It isnt the only way to learn something but if you are willing to put in the hard effort, it can have a huge payoff.

The narration was also solid. Narrator knew when to put emphasis on something and when to speak in a more neutral fashion.

If you love learning and you want to reconsider the way you approach developing new skills, I say give ultralearning a chance.

Good information, honest about process

The honesty of the author made it very relatable, even if not easily obtainable.

Great Book!!

This book is one that I would recommend for people who are looking to accomplish what seems to be impossible. This book will help you focus on ways that you can accomplish that goal. Though it is an “learning” style book, it can be applied to many facets of life. The techniques written about are those that aren’t exclusive to “learning” but inclusive of life, as life is a journey full of learning experiences.