Ultralearning

Accelerate Your Career, Master Hard Skills and Outsmart the Competition

By: Scott H. Young

Narrated by: Scott Young

READ BY THE AUTHOR

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.

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 nine 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.

©2019 Scott H. Young (P)2019 HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Critic reviews

‘Ultralearning is like a superpower in our competitive economy. Read this book! It will change your life.’
— Cal Newport, author of Digital Minimalism and Deep Work

‘How do you master a difficult subject more quickly than by sitting through years of classes? Read Ultralearning for specific directions on structuring and absorbing complex topics in record time. This short book provides you with a step-by-step guide to becoming an ultra fast learner.’
— Robert Pozen, author of Extreme Productivity and Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management

‘Ultralearning is the best book on learning I’ve ever read. It’s a beautifully written, brilliantly researched, and immediately useful masterpiece. If you are looking for the magic match to help light your learning, Ultralearning is it. If you want to learn anything, do yourself a favor and read this book. Now.”
— Barbara Oakley, author of A Mind for Numbers and co-author and co-instructor of Learning How to Learn

‘This book is an invaluable tool to help you master complicated skills in a short period of time. Read Ultralearning and level up your life!’
— Chris Guillebeau, bestselling author of The $100 Startup and The Happiness of Pursuit

‘A truly great book about learning. Riveting, useful, practical, and applicable to anyone ready to learn something at their own pace. Ultralearning shows you exactly how to learn better than you thought possible.’
— Derek Sivers, author of Anything You Want

Brilliant book for all things learning

Highly recommend book for anyone wanting to learn new anything in life.

Combine with Atomic Habits by James Clear for a winning combination of positive changes.

Great

This book is very very great. I'll apply the strategies in my profetional Carrier.

Now I of my top 3 books

Now I of my top 3 books.
And the audio rendering was beautiful, even at 2X speed.
I know I paid for this book but still, thank you!

Great resource for learning

Great resource with concrete examples on how to apply ultra learning. I can’t wait to get started on my own projects

Really good book, laid out in a good way

This is a really good book, laid out in a good way. It has some overlap to other similar books such as Cal Newport's "So good that they can't ignore you" and Barbara Oakley's "A mind for numbers", but it takes a much more comprehensive approach to covering all the relevant aspects important in self-directed hyper-intensive learning, and so was very well worth the listen.

I like how it both outlines general principles (listing 9 principles common among many ultralearners), and how it also goes into a lot of concrete practical information on how proven ultralearners have actually succeeded.

I did consume this book as an audiobook, as I find I have easier to find spare time to use in listening mode than reading mode. This was an interesting experiment, and probably helped me finish the book much faster than otherwise. The slight drawback I noted was that it wasn't as easy to interrupt my listening to take notes, something I wish I had done. Thus, I might re-read it as a normal book for taking more detailed notes. Should be well spent time nonetheless.

Absolutely brilliant book

Found it immediately useful in my currently ongoing effort to learn the art of designing some specialized electronic equipment, as well as teaching my son the basics of electronics and programming.

The book provides many powerful insights useful for students, parents and pretty much anyone actually: how to decide if you need it, how to plan your study to avoid spreading yourself thin, how to maximize the pace, how to learn deeper and retain more of it, how to find the time, the motivation, you name it. I love this book!

Great introduction

Lovely beginning

Anyone looking to start they journey on improving their learning process ,should read this book

Not for me

This book could be fully and adequately summarized as “learn by doing and keep at it.”
It holds no profound ideas ... I don’t know why I thought it would.