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  • Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career
  • Written by: Scott H. Young
  • Narrated by: Scott H. Young
  • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (201 ratings)

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Ultralearning

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Publisher's Summary

Future-proof your career and maximize your competitive advantage by learning the skill necessary to stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and adapt to whatever the workplace throws your way in this essential guide that goes beyond the insights of popular works such as Extreme Productivity, Deep Work, Peak, and Make It Stick.

Faced with tumultuous economic times and rapid technological change, staying ahead in your career depends on continual learning - a lifelong mastery of new ideas, subjects, and skills. If you want to accomplish more and stand apart from everyone else, you need to become an ultralearner.

Scott Young incorporates the latest research about the most effective learning methods and the stories of other ultralearners like himself - among them Ben Franklin, Judit Polgar, and Richard Feynman, as well as a host of others, such as little-known modern polymaths like Nigel Richards who won the World Championship of French Scrabble - without knowing French.

Young documents the methods he and others have used 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 the seven principles behind every successful ultralearning project, and offers insights into how you can organize and execute 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 10 languages), earn the equivalent of a college degree in a fraction of the time, or master multiple skills to build a product or business from the ground up, the principles in Ultralearning will guide you to success.

©2019 Scott Young (P)2019 HarperAudio

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Interesting Stories

The book starts off a bit weak, but keep listening! The examples the author provides become more and more compelling. It starts off with weaker cases (e.g: people taking years off work or being financially supported by their partner, a privilege unavailable to many people), but moves into more interesting and relatable stories.

Also, the narration is top notch and kept me hooked!

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Well researched, entertaining and excellent advice

Everyone should read listen to this book - students, office workers, business owners, creative professionals etc. I think this book would be especially useful for those trying to switch careers and need to learn a new set of skills fast. Scott lays out everything you need to consider in a step-by-step fashion peppered with interesting stories and solid scientific research. Very impressed! Get this book, you would not regret it!

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Fantastic

Once I started listening, I couldn't stop. I find the topic of learning very interesting, and the coverage of this in the book is excellent (as is the point). The book is both an interesting observation on learning, as well as inspires the reader to apply the concepts covered in their own life. Highly recommend!

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so far my favorite learning book

I have listened to over one dozen books on this topic, and I have taken the most notes listening to this book by a mile! I feel like it has the most practical strategies and straightforward method, as long as you pay attention and follow the guidelines. it's not flashy and it doesn't need to be! highly recommended!

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A guide to ambitious learning projects

This book showcases lots of helpful techniques for ambitious learning projects. The author provides great examples of projects that he accomplished along with other ultra learners. The presentation was great. Overall a great book for students of any age.

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North Star 🌟 for self learners.

All the chapter have detail knowledge of theory and practical guidelines to apply in any project. It's make extreme projects easy to go through and make me believe that I can learn anything. Anybody can learn anything..!!

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THIS WAS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR!!!

Learning is always fun! Especially when done right. What an amazing read! Everyone should read this no matter what their initial reaction is to the topic/subject.

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Inspiring

Great books for learning how to learn. It pairs well with Peak by Anders Ericsson.

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Extremely helpful tool, even for regular learning

While Ultralearning is a very interesting task, the topics discussed in this book are good for every day learning as well.

The layout and format of the book, and each chapter, made this extremely easy to digest. There's a small short story to tie the chapter together, and then the lessons to take from that story, and how to apply them.

After Atomic Habits, this is definitely my second favorite improvement book. Not only for its content and ease of use but its actionable ideas.

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A great tool

A great book and a solid amalgamation of useful tools and techniques to aid in personal development in further learning.

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