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 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

I will listen to this a second time taking notes

I came out of this Audible wanting it to continue. The outline and conclusions struck a chord based on my previous experience learning new concepts or subjects. The ones I find myself remembering the best over time can be traced to many of the pillars described in this book. It’s five stars from my perspective!

Monstrous Book.

This book is mind blowing. It's the most complete system for learning I've seen! I was finding it hard to find new paradigm shifting materials after spending my last relentlessly focusing hundreds of hours on learning. This book hast pointed out some tremendous holes in my self created processes and I'm excited to reach a whole new level!

Great Work

this is the map I have been looking for years. All that is left is to do the work 👍.

Great work condensing learnig principles

Great work on condensing de findamental principles os learning.
I liked that at 2x the speed tou can listen all the audiobook in one train trip of 3 hours just as I did.

Why would you not read this?

If you want to master a new skill in a quick period of time this the book to read. Everybody should read this. There is always time to learn.

Loved this book!

Very detailed and well thought out from beginning to end. I was familiar with him before reading this however when this book came out I wanted to add his take on things into how I learn. I was not disappointed.

Insightful Metalearning Tool

This book combines much of the literature I’ve read from other authors on the subject, but with the authors personal “experiments” as a proof for each experience. There are, of course, real life stories inspired his philosophy. The result is a logicical, cohesive method with additional options to tailor the program to an individual’s style and preference.

Great Way to Learn

This was actually a pretty good book written like a research paper. The Ultralearning style is broken into 9 principles: Metalearning, Focus, Directness, Drill, Retrieval, Feedback, Retention, Intuition, and Experimentation.

Good primer on "ultralearning"

Overall I found this to be a helpful book. It is pretty dense and probably works better a sit down and listen style of book where you can make some notes than it does as commute listen. I am going back to review certain chapters as I am sure I missed some important bits. I am using the material to set up my first attempt at a subject mastery learning dive. The author being the narrator works out pretty well and is not overly distracting like with some authors. If I had to do it over, I would purchase this again.

Very straight forward and factual

This book provided a plethora of information on becoming an Ultralearner. A lot of the information may have cause you to say “well of course” while other information may make you think “that’s a good approach I should try”.

The speaker and author himself is very clear when it comes to what he is saying and how he portrays the information. To some it may become a little too factual and dry leading to a desire for maybe a joke here and there to lighten up the listening experience.

Overall, I believe this is a greatly researched informational guide to Ultralearning and anyone reading this should definitely take something away from it. Personally, as I stated before, it got a little dry and stale which is why I gave it 4 stars all around, but it’s still a good read!