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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

471: How to Acquire New Skills Faster with Scott H. Young

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

Sharpening, Self-improvement, Meaning, Winning, Development, Money, Interview, Writing, Health & Fitness, Speaking, Mental Health, Success, Wins, Fun, Skills, Business, Careers, Training, Education, Collaboration, Decisions, Career, Selfhelp, Mockaitis, Thinking

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Scott Young shares innovative methods to learn new skills more efficiently and effectively.   You'll Learn: Foundational principles for mastering skills more effectively The importance of “meta-learning” The Feynman Technique and other approaches to accelerate learning   About Scott: Scott is a writer, programmer, traveler and an avid reader of interesting things. For the last ten years he’s been experimenting to find out how to learn and think better. He doesn’t promise he has all the answers, just a place to start. Scott’s Book: "Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career" Scott’s MIT Challenge Scott’s email: personal@scotthyoung.com Scott’s website: ScottHYoung.com   Resources mentioned in the show: Online Class: MIT OpenCourseWare Technique: Feynman Technique Study: Retrieval Practice Produces More Learning than Elaborative Studying with Concept Mapping Book: "The Enigma of Reason" by Hugo Mercier   Thank you Sponsor! The Simple Habit meditation app can help you gain greater control over distractions for faster learning. The first 50 listeners to sign up at SimpleHabit.com/Awesome get 30% off premium subscriptions. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

0:10.0

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.

0:14.0

With your host, Pete McKitis.

0:16.0

Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 471 with Scott Young. I understand y'all like to learn more and

0:26.8

get better. Well Scott is going to share how to get better at learning more and

0:31.2

getting better. It's so meta. So you're going to learn how to at Cellmetto.

0:33.0

So you're going to learn how to accelerate your learning with some of his

0:36.2

ultra learning approaches.

0:38.0

You'll learn one foundational principles for mastering skills more effectively.

0:41.6

Two, the importance of met-learning, and three, the

0:44.7

findman technique and other approaches to accelerate your learning.

0:48.5

So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items we referenced,

0:51.9

it's all submit your job.

0:52.8

dot com slash EP 471, or you can expand

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in your podcast at player, the show notes

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or show description, episode notes,

1:00.8

episode description to click there, all the faster with fewer taps.

1:06.0

Now here's Scott's story.

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Scott is a writer, programmer, traveler, and an avid reader of interesting things.

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For the last 10 years he's been experimenting to find out how to learn and

1:13.7

think better. He doesn't promise he has all the answers, but he has a great place to

1:18.2

start. Big thanks to Scott for sharing his wisdom with us and big thanks to our

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