Ultralearning

Scott H. Young presents ultralearning as an aggressive, self-directed strategy for acquiring hard skills, combining nine learning principles with cases that show how focused projects can improve practice, retention, feedback, and real-world performance.

4 sections ยท 12 lessons

Course outline

Learning Strategy

  1. Beyond Learning Faster
  2. Map the Skill First
  3. Build Focus That Holds
  4. Plan a Six-Week Skill Project

Practice Loop

  1. Practice the Real Thing
  2. Drill the Bottleneck
  3. Retrieve Before Reviewing
  4. Repair a Stalled Practice Loop

Improve and Keep

  1. Turn Feedback Into Correction
  2. Make Learning Last
  3. Build Intuition, Not Familiarity

Run the Project

  1. Experiment With a Baseline
  2. Weight Principles by Domain
  3. Adapt, Recover, and Finish
  4. Redesign a Part-Time Project

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