Ultralearning

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

By: Scott H. Young

Narrated by: Scott H. Young

Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins

Publisher's summary

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 10 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.

©2019 Scott Young (P)2019 HarperAudio

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!!!!

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.

An intense way to look at learning!

love the concept of ultralearning. Can't wait to apply it to the piano. Great book!

Very Useful

The book has real insight into how to best spend time learning given generic situations.

For the lifelong learner this is amazing

For the lifelong learner is absolutely amazing to learn of the examples and also the techniques it makes it worthwhile because this is an investment in one’s self absolutely fantastic truly enjoyed it will review the audible book again in the future

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.

Great Learning and Fun Stories

Scott has plenty of stories to tell and does a decent job of connecting dots across topics. His principles are numerous but easy to remember- like Meta learning, directness, and feedback. oh, and drill. But there are many hypothetical and extensions of his own research and experience that he makes which exposes his limited experience in not just learning fast or deeply, but also broadly. His story is excellent, he is the real deal, but doesnt know how he differs and how great research is done - because his life appears to be isolated project after isolated project. So, while his content is good, it lacks some awareness - but you'll forgive him for that and his Canadian accent as he captivates with awesome anecdotes and some good concepts, facts, and procedures to boot (you'll know quickly what I'm referring to here after you dive in). Don't wait - this is a story and subject worth learning from.

Everybody should have access to this book!

On Planet Michelle, this will be compulsory reading in high school. And I’d push for a young readers edition to be written too. I’m frustrated at how slow we are to move away from traditional, arguably habitual, education methodologies.

The entire public education system needs to be flipped on it ass. Embracing ultra-learning methods would give the powers at be, to be less concerned about forcing kids 5-8 into the standardized teaching and testing model, and letting them self pace their play and learning. Understanding that catching up is not a problem later on when they’re ready.

My now 25-year-old daughter, missed approximately two years of school between approximately 9 and 12 years old. During which time, we traveled extensively around the globe. When we returned she had to be assessed before being placed back into school. Fair enough, she did test 18 months behind her peers. However, without any encouragement from us or any specific extra curriculum activities to catch her up she naturally caught up in less than six months. Seemingly to just assimilate the missed knowledge to do so.

I wish my son, who’s six years old and struggling with language and numbers (likely dyslexic) could focus on his other strengths instead, snd in the same breath, in combination with working out alternative ways in which to learn. (I suspect Montessori materials that can be physically picked up, examined and manipulated by students would greatly benefit the dyslexic.)

Anyway, fabulous book.