Welcome to the man talk show.

I'm Connor Beaton.

This podcast brings together some of the best thought leaders, teachers, and extraordinary individuals to help teach and mentor you on how to be a top performer in

life, love, and business.

And joining me today is just an absolutely incredible human being.

His name is Scott Young.

And Scott has a platform where he talks about learning. He's been on an absolutely incredible adventure.

He recently wrote a book called Ultra Learning, Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the

competition and accelerate your career. So the reason why I wanted to have Scott on the show is

not just about the book, but to actually talk about learning

itself. So Scott's a writer who undertakes interesting self-education projects, such as get

ready for this. I kid you not. He did an MIT challenge where he decided to try and learn

MIT's four-year undergraduate computer science curriculum in

12 months without taking any classes and was successful. So we talk about that journey.

He spent a year without speaking English. And we talk a little bit about that as well.

And he's done a 30-day portrait drawing challenge to improve his artistic skills.

And in April of 2019, he decided to tackle a short but challenging project to learn the basics of quantum mechanics.

So he's done a few things.

He's done a few really interesting and courageous projects.

He's from a small town in northern Manitoba, in Canada.

Really interesting life and story. We kind of talk about the basis, the genesis of his life and his

background. And one of the things that I really wanted to understand is, you know, can anyone do

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