Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career

by Scott H. Young

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Young distills nine principles of aggressive self-directed learning from case studies of figures like Benjamin Franklin, Richard Feynman, and polyglot Benny Lewis, plus his own MIT Challenge in which he completed the undergraduate computer science curriculum in a year. The argument is that intense, deliberate, project-based learning can compress years of conventional study and is a crucial strategy in an economy where skill acquisition determines career options.

Published:: 2019
Pages:: 304

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In this collection, Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career references 5 other books.

It draws on Deep Work, Tools of Titans and The 4-Hour Workweek.

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Young repeatedly cites Newport's Deep Work as the attentional foundation ultralearning requires, treating Newport's concentration arguments as prerequisites for intense skill acquisition

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Deep Work

by Cal Newport

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Draws on Ferriss's Tools of Titans interview collection for multiple ultralearner profiles and meta-learning techniques used by elite performers

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Tools of Titans

by Tim Ferriss

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Engages with Ferriss's 4-Hour Workweek approach to accelerated skill acquisition and lifestyle design, particularly around language learning tactics

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The 4-Hour Workweek

by Tim Ferriss

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Builds on Clear's Atomic Habits in framing how ultralearners structure daily practice, with Clear providing a blurb and conceptual scaffolding for the habit side of the book

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Atomic Habits

by James Clear

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Invokes Pressfield's War of Art concept of Resistance to explain why most people avoid the discomfort ultralearning demands

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The War of Art

by Steven Pressfield

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