Unlocking the Secrets to Mastering Any Skill | Scott Young (EP354)
Minimalist Moms Podcast | Simple Living for Overwhelmed Moms
Diane Boden
4.8 • 952 Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
What does it really take to master any skill? In this episode, I interviewed Scott Young, author of Get Better at Anything, 12 Maxims for Mastery, to explore the science of learning.In this episode, Scott discusses the importance of learning from others, how to reframe motivation, and why failure alone isn't the best teacher. He also shares tips on supporting children's learning and debunks myths like the 10,000-hour rule. Whether you're trying to master a new skill or help someone else, this episode will give you the insights to make learning more effective.
Episode Chapters |
03:20 | Learning from Others
08:09 | Building Success and Reducing Trial and Error
11:26 | Motivation and Interest in Learning
13:45 | The Importance of Background Knowledge
18:00 | Focusing on Fewer Projects for Effective Learning
25:05 | The Belief that Anyone Can Learn Anything
About Scott |
Scott H. Young is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Ultralearning, a podcast host, computer programmer, and an avid reader. Since 2006, he has published weekly essays to help people learn and think better. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Pocket, and Business Insider, on the BBC, and at TEDx among other outlets. He doesn’t promise to have all the answers, just a place to start. He lives in Vancouver, Canada.
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- Scott's Resource: Daniel Willingham - Outsmart Your Brain , Why Don't Students Like School?
- Connect with Scott:
- Website
- Book: Get Better at Anything: 12 Maxims for Mastery
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| 0:00.0 | The typical success story is not someone who just like endured through years and years of failure and then finally succeeded. |
| 0:07.0 | It's they had some small successes and they built on those small successes to some bigger successes. |
| 0:12.0 | Some of the things that are the most dry material possible |
| 0:15.6 | can still be interesting if you treat it as like a puzzle for your own mind. |
| 0:19.2 | If you practice them, you can get good at them. |
| 0:20.8 | So like an example that I think often surprises people is like you can get better |
| 0:24.1 | at IQ tests if you if you just practice IQ tests. I think a lot of our difficulties in our life is that |
| 0:31.1 | are sort of our intentional environment has been like over-engineered |
| 0:35.4 | to capture our attention in ways that don't really align with our goals. |
| 0:38.9 | Hello and welcome to the minimalist moms podcast. |
| 0:41.7 | What does it really take to master any skill? In this episode I |
| 0:46.1 | interviewed Scott Young author of Get Better at Anything, 12 Maxim's for |
| 0:51.0 | Mastery to explore the science of learning. |
| 0:54.0 | In this episode, Scott discusses the importance of learning from others, |
| 0:57.6 | how to reframe motivation, and why failure alone isn't the best teacher. He also shares tips on supporting children's |
| 1:04.7 | learning and debunks myths like the 10,000 hour rule. Whether you're trying to |
| 1:08.8 | master a new skill or help someone else, this episode will give you the |
| 1:12.0 | insights to make learning more |
| 1:13.4 | effective. But before we get there I quickly want to share a minimalist resource |
| 1:18.1 | with you for the week. By the way I've contemplated renaming the segment because sometimes I'm like, |
| 1:23.7 | hey, I have a thought for you to live more intentionally, but I think I'll just leave it |
| 1:27.3 | as the minimalist moment so you all know what I'm talking about. |
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