Ultralearning. Scott H. Young
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1: Can You Get an MIT Education Without Going to MIT?
CHAPTER 2: Why Ultralearning Matters
CHAPTER 3: How to Become an Ultralearner
CHAPTER 4: Principle 1—Metalearning: First Draw a Map
CHAPTER 5: Principle 2—Focus: Sharpen Your Knife
CHAPTER 6: Principle 3—Directness: Go Straight Ahead
CHAPTER 7: Principle 4—Drill: Attack Your Weakest Point
CHAPTER 8: Principle 5—Retrieval: Test to Learn
CHAPTER 9: Principle 6—Feedback: Don’t Dodge the Punches
CHAPTER 10: Principle 7—Retention: Don’t Fill a Leaky Bucket
CHAPTER 11: Principle 8—Intuition: Dig Deep Before Building Up
CHAPTER 12: Principle 9—Experimentation: Explore Outside Your Comfort Zone
CHAPTER 13: Your First Ultralearning Project
CHAPTER 14: An Unconventional Education
ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
My relationship with Scott Young began in mid-2013. On July 10, I sent him an email asking if he wanted to set up a call for the following month. We had met at a conference a few days earlier, and I was hoping he would be willing to continue the conversation.
“Possibly,” he replied. “I’ll be in Spain then, and the language-learning focus of my upcoming project may take precedence.”
It wasn’t the response I was hoping for, but it seemed reasonable. Managing calls while traveling internationally can be tricky, and I understood if he wanted to wait until he returned. However, I quickly found out that he would not be returning anytime soon, and it was not the time change nor a spotty internet connection that would postpone our conversation.
No, it would be hard to catch up with Scott because he was planning to speak no English for an entire year.
Thus began my introduction to Scott Young and his commitment to ultralearning. Over the next twelve months, I would trade sporadic emails with Scott as he traveled to Spain, Brazil, China, and Korea, and proceeded to become conversational in each of the respective languages along the way. He was true to his word: it was not until the following summer in 2014 that we carved out time to catch up regularly and began chatting with each other every few months.