Now a Wall Street Journal bestseller.
Learn a new talent, stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and adapt to
whatever the workplace throws your way. Ultralearning offers nine
principles to master hard skills quickly. This is the essential guide to
future-proof your career and maximize your competitive advantage through
self-education.
In these tumultuous times of economic and technological change, staying
ahead depends on continual self-education--a lifelong mastery of fresh
ideas, subjects, and skills. If you want to accomplish more and stand
apart from everyone else, you need to become an ultralearner.
The challenge of learning new skills is that you think you already know
how best to learn, as you did as a student, so you rerun old routines
and old ways of solving problems. To counter that, Ultralearning
offers powerful strategies to break you out of those mental ruts and
introduces new training methods to help you push through to higher
levels of retention.
Scott H. Young incorporates the latest research about the most effective
learning methods and the stories of other ultralearners like
himself--among them Benjamin Franklin, chess grandmaster Judit Polgár,
and Nobel laureate physicist Richard Feynman, as well as a host of
others, such as little-known modern polymath Nigel Richards, who won the
French World Scrabble Championship--without knowing French.
Young documents the methods he and others have used to acquire knowledge
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 a proven
framework for a successful ultralearning project, and offers insights
into how you can organize and exe - cute 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 tools to build a product or business from the ground up, the
principles in Ultralearning will guide you to success.
