MI351: Get Better at Anything w/ Scott Young
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4.6 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2024
⏱️ 73 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to TIP. |
| 0:02.2 | I mean, I think you hit a good point, which is that the starting point for learning a skill like investing is going to be getting to the best practices, getting to the like, I am at sort of wherever the best investors are in their thinking about this. |
| 0:16.7 | I am at that level. |
| 0:18.1 | And the truth is, is that most people are not. |
| 0:20.1 | And a lot of people are, you know, okay, I'm dabbling a little bit and you're following, you know, some YouTube guy who's saying you should invest in something and it's not a particularly sound strategy. And so I think that would be my starting point. If I were to like get into investing seriously, it would be what is the best understanding? What is the best practice that I can learn from |
| 0:38.3 | other people? Like, don't trial and error this. |
| 0:43.3 | Hey, guys. In today's episode, I had the pleasure of sitting down and talking with Scott Young, |
| 0:47.9 | author of Get Better at Anything, 12 Maxims for Mastery, which you can apply to any domain in your |
| 0:53.5 | life. You'll learn more about the |
| 0:55.1 | learning challenges Scott accomplished for himself, how to set and achieve ambitious schools, |
| 1:00.2 | what the three factors to get better at anything are, how to create a brain trust, the importance |
| 1:05.1 | of seeking out feedback, the books that have impacted Scott, and so much more. Scott is the Wall Street Journal best-selling |
| 1:11.9 | author of Ultra Learning, a podcast host, a computer programmer, and avid reader. Since 2006, he's published |
| 1:18.6 | weekly essays to help people learn and think better. His work has been featured in the New York |
| 1:23.6 | Times, Pocket and Business Insider, on the BBC and at TEDx, among other outlets. |
| 1:28.9 | He doesn't promise to have all the answers, but he is a great place to start. |
| 1:32.6 | The ability to learn and master hard things as a superpower. |
| 1:35.9 | And as Charlie Munger once said, I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, |
| 1:40.7 | sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines. |
| 1:45.1 | Without further delay, let's dive into today's episode with Scott Young. |
| 1:53.0 | Celebrating 10 years, you are listening to Millennial Investing by the Investors Podcast Network. |
| 1:59.4 | Since 2014, we interviewed successful entrepreneurs, business leaders, and investors |
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