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Scott Young – Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your CareerLearn 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.https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/006285268X/Bonus 1:Learn More, Study Less. My first book on learning. I’ve learned a lot since writing this book, but it remains useful and popular. Including translated editions, it’s sold well over 200,000 copies worldwide.Bonus 2:How to Change a Habit. A step-by-step system to create a new habit or break a bad one. Includes an audio companion guide.Bonus 3:Think Outside the Cubicle. How to be productive when working in unconventional settings. Ideal for students, entrepreneurs, freelancers and people who work from home. Includes additional audio interviews.Bonus 4:The Little Book of Productivity. Ninety-nine brief ideas to work better and faster.Bonus 5:Ultralearning PDF Workbook. A complete walkthrough to show you how to tackle your next project the ultralearning way. Use this in combination with the book to fine-tune your approach to school, work or personal projects to maximize the amount you learn.Bonus 6:Interview with James Clear on how he applied ultralearning strategies to become a best-selling author, successful entrepreneur and finalist for National Geographic’s travel photo of the year. James, who wrote the forward for my book, breaks down in detail some of the unusual learning methods he’s applied to become great at writing, photography, business and more.Bonus 7:Interview with Barbara Oakley on how she’s learned languages, got a PhD in engineering (even though she was terrible at math) and created the most popular online course of all-time, Learning How to Learn.Bonus 8:Interview with Tristan de Montebello. Featured extensively in my book, Tristan started out as a reader of my blog who was part of a small group of people I coached in ultralearning when researching the book. His project, to become good at public speaking, exploded, with him ending up going from near-zero experience to a finalist for the World Championship of Public Speaking in just seven months. In this interview, we break down how he did it, and how you can apply what he learned to your own projects and presentations.Bonus 9:Interview with Cal Newport. Cal has been a long-time friend and an inspiration for my own learning efforts. He has had incredible success in two professions simultaneously, becoming a tenured professor at a top university in computer science, while also becoming a bestselling author of six books. He walks through some of his private ultralearning experiments he’s applied to get good at school, research, writing and more.