How to Get Better at Anything

The Art of Manliness

Society & Culture, Education, Philosophy

4.7 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Life revolves around learning—in school, at our jobs, even in the things we do for fun. But we often don’t progress in any of these areas at the rate we’d like. Consequently, and unfortunately, we often give up our pursuits prematurely or resign ourselves to always being mediocre in our classes, career, and hobbies. Scott Young has some tips on how you can avoid this fate, level up in whatever you do, and enjoy the satisfaction of skill improvement. Scott is a writer, programmer, and entrepreneur, and the author of Get Better at Anything: 12 Maxims for Mastery. Today on the show, Scott shares the three key factors in helping us learn. He explains how copying others is an underrated technique in becoming a genius, why, contrary to the sentiments of motivational memes, we learn more from success than mistakes, why experts often aren’t good teachers and tactics for drawing out their best advice, why you may need to get worse before you get better, and more.

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0:00.0	Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness
0:10.3	Podcast life revolves around learning in school at our jobs on Consequently and unfortunately we often give up our pursuits prematurely
0:24.0	or resign ourselves to always be mediocre in our classes, career, and hobbies.
0:29.0	Scott Young has and tips on how you can avoid this fate,
0:31.0	level up in whatever you do do and enjoy the satisfaction of skill
0:34.9	improvement. Scott is a writer, programmer, and entrepreneur, and the author of Get Better
0:40.3	at Anything, 12 maxims for mastery.
0:43.4	Today in the show, Scott shares the three key factors
0:45.8	in helping us learn.
0:47.1	He explains how copying to others is an under-day technique
0:49.4	in becoming a genius.
0:50.8	Why, contrary the sentiments of motivational memes, we learn more from success
0:54.1	the mistakes, why experts often aren't good teachers and tactics for drawing out their best advice,
0:59.6	while you may need to get worse before you get better, more. After the show is over check at
1:03.8	our show notes at aoem. i.s slash get better. All right, Scott Young.
1:13.0	Well, back to the show.
1:19.0	All right, Scott Young.
1:20.0	Welcome back to the show.
1:21.0	Oh, thank you so much for having me back. So the last time we had you on, we
1:25.0	discussed your book Ultra Learning. You got a new book out called Get Better at Anything. Both books are
1:30.9	about learning. So how does get better than anything
1:34.7	pick up where ultra learning left off?
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