#9 in Economics
Ultralearning
- 304
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
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Our view
Scott Young’s “Ultralearning” is a practical guide to teaching yourself something hard in a short stretch of time. Its nine principles, from drawing up a road map to attacking your weakest point first, come with examples and a project outline that some readers find usable. Some feel it lacks depth or repeats familiar ideas, and others are unconvinced by examples built on months of full-time study. Most useful just before a project of your own.
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About the book
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. In this essential book, Scott Young incorporates the latest research about the most effective learning methods and the stories of other ultralearners like himself—among them Ben Franklin and Richard Feynman, as well as a host of others, such as little-known modern polymaths like Alexander Arguelles, who speaks more than forty languages. 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.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.9 across 158 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 52% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Economics average of 7.8. That is how 7.9 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.6 | 14 | 9% |
| Hardcover | 7.8 | 144 | 91% |
Frequently asked
How long is Ultralearning?
It has 304 pages — shorter than 62% of the ranked books in Economics.
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