• Author: Scott Young
  • Full Title: Ultralearning
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Highlights

  • Chapter I Can You Get an MIT Education Without Going to MIT? (Location 116)
  • Chapter II Why Ultralearning Matters (Location 428)
  • Ultralearning: A strategy for acquiring skills and knowledge that is both self-directed and intense. (Location 432)
  • First, ultralearning is a strategy. (Location 433)
  • Second, ultralearning is self-directed. (Location 435)
  • Self-direction is about who is in the driver’s seat for the project, not about where it takes place. (Location 437)
  • Finally, ultralearning is intense. All of the ultralearners I met took unusual steps to maximize their effectiveness in learning. (Location 439)
  • The Case for Ultralearning (Location 449)
  • This paints a picture that might either be bleak or hopeful, depending on your response to it. Bleak, because it means that many of the assumptions embedded in our culture about what is necessary to live a successful, middle-class lifestyle are quickly eroding. With the disappearance of medium-skilled jobs, it’s not enough to get a basic education and work hard every day in order to succeed. Instead, you need to move into the higher-skilled category, where learning is constant, or you’ll be pushed into the lower-skilled category at the bottom. Underneath (Location 482)
  • I believe there are three main cases in which this strategy for quickly acquiring hard skills can apply: accelerating the career you have, transitioning to a new career, and cultivating a hidden advantage in a competitive world. (Location 525)
  • The best ultralearners are those who blend the practical reasons for learning a skill with an inspiration that comes from something that excites them. (Location 548)
  • The core of the ultralearning strategy is intensity and a willingness to prioritize effectiveness. (Location 601)
  • The second way is by pursuing ultralearning during gaps in work and school. Many (Location 605)
  • question: Ultralearning may be valuable, but is it learnable? Is ultralearning just a description of people with unusual personalities, or does it represent something that someone who wasn’t an ultralearner before could actually become? (Location 621)
  • Chapter III How to Become an Ultralearner (Location 624)
  • If ultralearning could be bottled or standardized, it would simply be an intense form of structured education. (Location 716)
  • In each chapter, I’ll introduce a new principle, plus some evidence to back it up both from ultralearning examples and from scientific research. (Location 723)
  • Chapter IV Principle 1 Metalearning First Draw a Map (Location 759)
  • Learning this property of Chinese characters is metalearning—not learning about the object of your inquiry itself, in this case words and phrases, but learning about how knowledge is structured and acquired within this subject; in other words, learning how to learn it. (Location 792)