#58 Scott Young: Learning for Real Life

Scott Young is an expert on rapid, effective learning. This ep will help you learn new skills effectively and quickly amidst the chaos of real life. Whether you’re a new parent trying to carve out time for that side project, or you’re a swamped company leader who needs to learn something new to take your team to the next level, or maybe you wish you’d finally learn that language—then this episode is for you.

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Links & resources mentioned

• Send episode feedback on Twitter @askotzko , or via email

• Scott Young: website, Twitter

  • Book: Ultralearning

  • Scott's podcast

  • Course: Top Performer

  • Previous challenges

    • The MIT Challenge

    • The Year Without English

• Related episodes

  • #54 David Kadavy: Creative self-actualization

• People & orgs

  • Cal Newport

  • Benny Lewis

  • Steve Pavlina

  • James Clear

• Books

  • Deep Work

  • Fluent in 3 Months

  • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

  • Atomic Habits

  • Fluent Forever

  • Polarity Management

• Other resources mentioned

  • Desirable Difficulties: When Harder is Better for Learning - Scott H Young

  • The Human Brain | Brain and Cognitive Sciences | MIT OpenCourseWare

  • Thinking on the margin - Definition and examples — Conceptually.)

  • Anki