4 Ways to Learn Skills Faster with Ultralearning

I’m retiring by my 25th birthday with this self-study program.

The concept of ultra learning is exactly what it sounds like. Acquiring new knowledge and skills within a short period of time. To get that promotion. To switch fields entirely.

Or, as author Scott Young discovered, different ultralearners managed to win a public speaking championship within six months, win multiple days of Jeopardy, and quickly pick up enough languages to become a polyglot — master of multiple tongues, complete with proficiency scores that rivaled native speakers.

From his book, Ultralearning, Young explores an array of learning techniques to turn anyone off the street into the next Einstein. The most vital, however, is to organize your learning in a way that makes sense to you.

Among the ultralearners surveyed for the book, no two were alike, other than in these behaviors:

It’s this obsession with the skills we pursue that will separate us from the crowd. Young tells the story of a Scrabble champion who managed to win a French competition without knowing the language.

He’d rehearse for hours as he biked around the city. Endlessly repeating learned words and phrases to have a near frictionless recall when it came time to outperform the competition.

When hobbies turn from side projects into passion projects, the avenue for ultralearning is opened.

Creating a personal ultralearning program is important to serve subjective curiosities and develop useful skills to be applied in professional settings.

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