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🗓️ 22 October 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Scott Young, who gained fame for teaching himself the four-year MIT computer science curriculum in just 12 months, says that the type of fast, focused learning he employed is possible for all of us -- whether we want to master coding, become fluent in a foreign language, or excel at public speaking. And, in a dynamic, fast-paced business environment that leaves so many of us strapped for time and struggling to keep up, he believes that the ability to quickly develop new knowledge and skills will be a tremendous asset. After researching best practices and experimenting on his own, he has developed a set of principles that any of us can follow to become "ultralearners." Young is the author of the book "Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career."

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0:00.0	Kurt Nick is here from Ideacast. I want to tell you about the Big Take
0:05.1	podcast from Bloomberg News. Each weekday they bring you one important story
0:10.0	from their global newsroom like how AI will upend your life and why China's
0:15.4	targeting the US dollar. Check out the big take from Bloomberg wherever you listen. Welcome to the HPR Ideacast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Allison Beard. If you've listened to the show before
0:49.0	if you've listened to the show before or close follower of HBR, you know a couple of things. One, to succeed
0:55.8	in today's workplace you need to always be learning, adapting, and growing. Your
1:00.0	current knowledge and skills will only get you so far.
1:03.6	Two, we feel more stressed and crunch for time than ever.
1:08.0	So how do we fit all this necessary self-improvement to our lives while also trying to balance the daily demands of a job,
1:14.4	outside activities, personal obligations, and ideally at least a little bit of rest.
1:19.1	Today's guest says the answer might be something called ultra learning, a strategy for developing expertise in areas from coding to foreign languages to public speaking extremely quickly.
1:31.0	Scott Young is the author of the book Ultra Learning.
1:34.0	Master hard skills, outsmart the competition, and accelerate your career.
1:38.0	Scott, thanks so much for being on the show.
1:40.0	Oh yeah, it's great to be here.
1:43.0	So how exactly do you define ultra learning? You know, how different is it from
1:58.9	cramming for a test or speed reading? Right, so I wouldn't define it in terms of being like cramming a test or speed reading.
2:07.0	Rather, the way that I looked at it was finding people who have
2:12.8	self-directed learning projects, not going through a school
2:15.7	and having to spend four years in university
2:17.8	or even longer if you're doing grad school,
2:20.2	but teaching themselves the skills that they wanted to have.
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