[Repost] Scott Young (Author of Ultralearning)

This is a holiday repost, which pairs very nicely with the recent episode with Cedric Chin discussing tacit knowledge, expert intuition, and deliberate practice. If you enjoyed that episode, you will hopefully also find Scott Young's work fascinating—since he distills research-based best practices in learning and skill acquisition into highly actionable strategies and tactics. Here's the original episode post: I've long been a Scott Young fan from my early days of reading blogs (miss you, Google Reader), so I was thrilled to get the chance to interview him about his new book Ultralearning. As a relentless consumer of information and a sometimes autodidact, I've found Scott's blog to be very insightful in terms of approaching new projects and learning skills like coaching and coding without going through a formal educational process. With the current ubiquity of information – including entire college curriculums, endless video interviews with world-class experts, and entire industries of online courses – we should be able to learn just about anything we want. However, as anyone who has either attempted to learn a new skill or, God forbid, teach someone else a skill has experienced, learning is really, really hard . How can we actually transfer what we learn from theoretical lectures and books to real-life application? How can we practice skills in a way that makes us better at the skill itself – not just at random drills? If you're enjoying the show, the best way to support it is by sharing with your friends. If you don't have any friends, why not a leave a review ? It makes a difference in terms of other people finding the show. You can also

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[Repost] Scott Young (Author of Ultralearning) is an episode from Todd Nief's Show by Todd Nief.

This episode is 01:16:34 long.

This episode was published on Nov 30, 2020.

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