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UltraLearning

🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences

It is a book about learning, based a little bit on the Deep Work and the Atomic Habits style of book. IT is about learning effectively and fast.

🎨 Impressions

✍️ My Top Quotes

  • "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth." - Mike Tyson
  • "Now I will have less distraction." - Leonhard Euler, Mathematician upon losing sight in his right eye.
  • "Memory is the residue of thought" - David Willingham, a cognitive psychologist
  • Feynman Technique: Write down the concept or problem you won't understand at the top of a piece of paper. In the space below, explain the idea did as if you had to teach it to someone else.
    If it is a concept, ask yourself how you would convey the idea to someone who's never heard of it before. If it is a problem, explain how to solve it and, crucially, why that's solution procedure makes sense. When you get stuck, meaning your understanding fails to provide a clear answer, go back to your book or test or teacher or reference material to find the answer.
  • Write down the concept or problem you won't understand at the top of a piece of paper.
  • In the space below, explain the idea did as if you had to teach it to someone else.
    If it is a concept, ask yourself how you would convey the idea to someone who's never heard of it before. If it is a problem, explain how to solve it and, crucially, why that's solution procedure makes sense.
  • If it is a concept, ask yourself how you would convey the idea to someone who's never heard of it before.
  • If it is a problem, explain how to solve it and, crucially, why that's solution procedure makes sense.
  • When you get stuck, meaning your understanding fails to provide a clear answer, go back to your book or test or teacher or reference material to find the answer.
  • The crux of the Feynman technique is that it tries to dispel the illusion of explanatory depth. Many of our understandings are never articulated, it is easy to think you understand something you don't.
  • Principles of Ultralearning: Meta-learning: First draw a map of what you want to learn. Learn how you will learn, do your research on resources and tools that will help you achieve your learning outcome. Focus: Sharpen your knife. Find the time to learn and concentrate. Directness: Go straight ahead. Focus on the thing you want to learn. Remove all secondary and trivial learning activities. Drill: Attack your weakest point. Break down complex skills into small parts and focus to improve your weakest points. Retrieval: Test to learn. Test yourself before you feel ready. Push yourself to actively recall information rather than possibly review material. Feedback: Don't dodge the punches. Extract the signal from noise, don't be afraid of harsh feedback. Retention: Don't fill a leaky bucket. Understand what you are forgetting and why. Intuition: Dig deep before building up. Understand how understanding works, not memorization. Experimentation: Explore outside your comfort zone. True understanding comes from exploring and experimenting on your own.
  • Meta-learning: First draw a map of what you want to learn. Learn how you will learn, do your research on resources and tools that will help you achieve your learning outcome.
  • Focus: Sharpen your knife. Find the time to learn and concentrate.
  • Directness: Go straight ahead. Focus on the thing you want to learn. Remove all secondary and trivial learning activities.
  • Drill: Attack your weakest point. Break down complex skills into small parts and focus to improve your weakest points.
  • Retrieval: Test to learn. Test yourself before you feel ready. Push yourself to actively recall information rather than possibly review material.
  • Feedback: Don't dodge the punches. Extract the signal from noise, don't be afraid of harsh feedback.
  • Retention: Don't fill a leaky bucket. Understand what you are forgetting and why.
  • Intuition: Dig deep before building up. Understand how understanding works, not memorization.
  • Experimentation: Explore outside your comfort zone. True understanding comes from exploring and experimenting on your own.