(Ep 287) - 5 Ways to Make Studying Fun (Without Sacrificing Effectiveness) by Scott H Young

(Ep 286) - The 10 Best Books I Read in 2023 by Scott H Young

(Ep 285) - 6 Strategies for Learning New Things (When You Have Kids) by Scott H Young

(Ep 284) - Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy- How to Change Your Mind by Scott H Young

(Ep 283) - How to learn anything easily by Scott H Young

(Ep 282) - Why Build a Life of Focus? by Scott H Young

(Ep 281) - Deciding Your Next Decade by Scott H Young

(Ep 280) - Why You Can’t Put Down Your Phone by Scott H Young

(Ep 279) - Lesson 1: How to Get Into a Focused State Quickly by Scott H Young

(Ep 278) - The 15 People Who Have Most Influenced My Thinking by Scott H Young

(Ep 277) - What Does Research Say is the Best Way to Learn a Language by Scott H Young

(Ep 276) - My #1 rule for writing by Scott H Young

(Ep 275) - Self-Efficacy: The Key to Understanding What Motivates You by Scott H Young

(Ep 274) - 18 Life Lessons I’d Give My 18-Year-Old Self by Scott H Young

(Ep 273) - The Simple Rule for Achieving Ambitious Goals by Scott H Young

(Ep 272) - 7 Expert Opinions I Agree With (That Most People Don’t) by Scott H Young

(Ep 271) - Why I'm not more popular by Scott H Young

(Ep 270) - The Mind is a Computer by Scott H Young

(Ep 269) - Overcoming Procrastination, Input Hypothesis, Time Management and Motor Skills by Scott H Young

(Ep 268) - Range, Learning Styles, Nootropics, Value Of Learning Things You’re Doomed To Forget by Scott H Young

(Ep 267) - Eight of My Unanswered Questions About the Best Way to Learn by Scott H Young

(Ep 266) - The Problem with Being Too Patient by Scott H Young

(Ep 265) - Why Flashcards Beat Mnemonics for Studying by Scott H Young

(Ep 264) - The Key to building rare and valuable skills by Scott H Young

(Ep 263) - Before You Burn Yourself Out Working, Do This by Scott H Young

(Ep 262) - Lesson 2: The Simple Economic Theory That Explains Whether You’ll Have a Great Career by Scott H Young

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(Ep 260) - When is Learning Worth the Effort? by Scott H Young

(Ep 259) - The complete guide to working memory by Scott H Young

(Ep 258) - When are Minimal Habits Useful for Learning by Scott H Young

(Ep 257) - Seven Steps for Making a Solid Studying Plan by Scott H Young

(Ep 256) - Ten Great Books on How to Learn Better by Scott H Young

(Ep 255) - 10 Ways You Can Use ChatGPT to Learn Better by Scott H Young

(Ep 254) - Recent Reading- Creativity, Mastery and the Three Phases of Learning by Scott H Young

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(Ep 252) - Ten of My Favorite Papers on the Science of Learning and Thinking by Scott H Young

(Ep 251) - How much transfer can you expect by Scott H Young

(Ep 250) - Are we losing the ability to read books by Scott H Young

(Ep 249) - No, ChatGPT Doesn’t Mean You Don’t Need to Learn Things by Scott H Young

(Ep 248) - Creativity is productivity by Scott H Young

(Ep 247) - Learning fast and slow by Scott H Young

(Ep 246) - How my views on learning have changed over time by Scott H Young

(Ep 245) - What Would You Do With More Time? by Scott H Young

(Ep 244) - The Underrated Usefulness of Taking a Time Log by Scott H Young

(Ep 243) - The Key to Sustainable Productivity by Scott H Young

(Ep 242) - Needing to Pay Attention is a Novel Problem by Scott H Young

(Ep 241) - Why Do People (Usually) Learn Less as They Get Older? by Scott H Young

(Ep 240) - The Intermediate Plateau by Scott H Young

(Ep 239) - Curated Consumption: A Saner Approach to Online Media by Scott H Young

(Ep 238) - The ten-book rule for smarter thinking by Scott H Young

(Ep 237) - 10 mental models for learning by Scott H Young

(Ep 236) - Good advice is obvious by Scott H Young

(Ep 235) - What Classes Should I Study to Land a Job? by Scott H Young

(Ep 234) - Why didn't more people take the MIT challenge by Scott H Young

(Ep 233) - 7 Books on the Science of Learning by Scott H Young

(Ep 232) - Variability not repetition is the key to mastery by Scott H Young

(Ep 231) - Avoiding Flashcard Hell by Scott H Young

(Ep 230) - Rapid Learner Lesson 4: Why you need a learning sytem by Scott H Young

(EP 229) - Rapid Learner Lesson 3: How to approach any exam with confidence by Scott H Young

(Ep 228) - Rapid Learner Lesson 2: Which matters more method or motivation by Scott H Young

(EP 227) - Rapid Learner Lesson 1: You've never been taught how to learn by Scott H Young

(Ep 226) - Failure is a lousy teacher by Scott H Young

(Ep 225) - Brain training doesn't work by Scott H Young

(Ep 224) - Building Confidence in Communication with Tristan de Montebello by Scott H Young

(Ep 223) - Maximize learning time with these 7 habits by Scott H Young

(Ep 222) - 85 percent rule for learning by Scott H Young

(Ep 221) - What work matters by Scott H Young

(Ep 220) - Why people stop improving by Scott H Young

(Ep 219) - How to find your next step by Scott H Young

(Ep 218) - The key to career progress by Scott H Young

(Ep 217) - Practice Made Perfect: The 10 Keys to Optimize Improvement by Scott H Young

(Ep 215) - More Recent Reading: Viking Law, Backgammon Strategy, The History of Alchemy and more… by Scott H Young

(Ep 216) - You're never too good for the basics by Scott H Young

(Ep 214) - The 10 best books on productivity by Scott H Young

(Ep 213) - You should pay for tutors by Scott H Young

(Ep 212) - No, you haven't forgotten everything by Scott H Young

(Ep 211) - Building A Second Brain - Tiago Forte by Scott H Young

(Ep 210) - Do you learn more by struggling on hard problems by Scott H Young

(Ep 209) - Book Review - Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs by Scott H Young

(Ep 208) - More recent reading by Scott H Young

(Ep 207) - Sustaining motivation, judging experts and the meanings of life by Scott H Young

(Ep 206) - See-do-feedback - The correct way to practice by Scott H Young

(Ep 205) - How to decide what to work on by Scott H Young

(Ep 204) - Cultural literacy by Scott H Young

(Ep 203) - What i've been reading by Scott H Young

(Ep 202) - Desirable Difficulties: When Harder is Better for Learning by Scott H Young

(Ep 201) - Construction integration model by Scott H Young

(Ep 200) - How Do We Learn Complex Skills? Understanding ACT-R Theory by Scott H Young

(Ep 199) - Why don't we use the math we learn in school by Scott H Young

(Ep 198) - The science of achievement - 7 research-backed tips to set better goals by Scott H Young

(Ep 197) - New research shows I was right about watching lectures faster by Scott H Young

(Ep 196) - Cognitive load theory and its applications for learning by Scott H Young

(Ep 195) - 7 books that have challenged and changed my thinking by Scott H Young

(Ep 194) - How much do you need to know before getting started? by Scott H Young

(Ep 193) - Which works better habits or projects by Scott H Young

(Ep 192) - Learning by doing - when does it work, when does it fail by Scott H Young

(Ep 191) - What if you don't feel smart enough by Scott H Young

(Ep 190) - The craft is the end by Scott H Young

(Ep 189) - 10 interesting books on how to think and learn by Scott H Young

(Ep 188) - You're trying to do too much by Scott H Young

(Ep 187) - The project driven life by Scott H Young

(Ep 186) - Want to write for a living - 7 things I wish I knew by Scott H Young

(Ep 185) - Is modernity a myth by Scott H Young

(Ep 184) - I'm 33 by Scott H Young

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(Ep 182) - Is life better when you're busy? by Scott H Young

(Ep 181) - Why aren't there more apprenticeships? by Scott H Young

(Ep 180) - Book recommendation - Uncommon Sense Teaching by Scott H Young

(Ep 179) - 10 Best tools to stay mentally sharp at work by Scott H Young

(Ep 178) - Metrics - Useful or Evil? by Scott H Young

(Ep 177) - What are the best arguments against doing the real thing by Scott H Young

(Ep 176) - What is understanding by Scott H Young

(Ep 175) - Beware tractability bias by Scott H Young

(Ep 174) - How becoming a dad changed my thoughts on productivity by Scott H Young

(Ep 173) - Digging the well by Scott H Young

(Ep 172) - 14 Books On Learning by Doing, Apprenticeship and Transfer by Scott H Young

(Ep 171) - A new understanding of effort by Scott H Young

(Ep 170) - Make your life better by doing less by Scott H Young

(Ep 169) - How I do research by Scott H Young

(Ep 167) - How to think for yourself by Scott H Young

(Ep 168) - The key to find time for learning by Scott H Young

(Ep 166) - The science behind building general skills by Scott H Young

(Ep 165) - The 10 central strategies for deeper learning by Scott H Young

Should you use flashcards to learn?

Some reflections on being off social media

My 10 favourite free online classes

How hard should you work?

Book recommendation: A world without email.

Could you learn every subject?

10 ideas that have shaped my life.

Make It Happen - Free Lesson 4

Make It Happen - Free Lesson 3

Make It Happen - Free Lesson 2

Make It Happen - Free Lesson 1

Talking about the productivity frontier.

Smarter people take more risks

10 foundational practices for a good life

How much can you change yourself?

How to take notes

The key to making risky decisions.

What's the best way to learn biology?

Example Lesson 4 - Life of Focus

Example Lesson 3 - Life of Focus

Example Lesson 2 - Life of Focus

Example Lesson 4 - Life of Focus

Are you missing this essential foundation for good life?

Fearing forgetting: Should you try to maintain or relearn knowledge?

How to become more curious.

Paradox of effort.

The boring and vastly underrated art of planning

The value of learning useless things

(Ep 136) - What are the Limits of Building Better Habits? by Scott H Young

(Ep 135) - Piers Steel - The science behind procrastination by Scott H Young

7 essential focus rituals.

What is beyond self-improvement?

The complete guide to motivation

How to teach yourself anything in less than three months

How Einstein learned physics.

There are two types of growth.

How to study for a standardized test

How to finish your work, one bite at a time

Audio, Paper or Kindle: What's the best way to read a book

Set an unbreakable standard.

What is productivity guilt?

If you want to be fit, don't buy new running shoes!

How to pick which books to read?

The 7 most common learner mistakes.

Seven principles of learning better from cognitive science.

The Overkill Approach: How to solve the hardest problems you face

Five scientific steps to ace your next exam

The surprisingly narrow path to success.

The all-important difference between effort and effectiveness.

You probably have too much motivation.

The 10 best mental models.

How to commit to things you start.

The fourth free lesson for the upcoming Rapid Learner launch.

The third free lesson for the upcoming Rapid Learner launch.

The second free lesson for the upcoming Rapid Learner launch.

The first free lesson for the upcoming Rapid Learner launch.

How much faster could you learn?

What's next?

The hard way is the easy way.

Rethinking self-discipline.

How successful was the MIT challenge?

How much of your career is running to stay in the same spot?

Set your goals in the middle.

Choose your signal wisely.

Interview with Cal Newport about career success, family life and digital minimalism.

Update for week two of learning Macedonian.

Do the real thing.

Week one learning Macedonian.

Seven rules for long-term productivity.

My new project - Learning Macedonian

A review of an interesting book you probably shouldn't read.

I was wrong about speed reading: here are the facts.

Seven habits that seem lazy (but actually let you get more done)

How important is work?

Core ideas of Self-Improvement.

Is your path a staircase or a circle?

How to design the perfect practice loop.

How to build skills that matter.

Now is the perfect time to start an ultralearning project!

Information overload is a fake problem.

How fast should you be when learning?

Why is it so hard to stick to your goals?

How does age change your learning ability?

About the power of being weak.

About keeping your word.

How to start your own ultralearning project part 2.

How to start your own ultralearning project part 1.

Success is stamina - to win means to keep playing.

You fail to reach your goals because you design them badly.

Your life problems are learning challenges in disguise.

You have to be willing to get cut.

Too tired to do everything? How to live better without burning out.

The complete guide to increasing your focus.

Unpopular Opinion: Don't just get started

Do you need to be smart to learn certain subjects?

Learn coding by teaching yourself.

Is mastery more like a wedge or a knife?

How to worry less what other people think of you

Why is taking action hard?

The 5 habits to fall asleep on time every night.

Unraveling the enigma of reason.

The complete guide to memory.

A post about Ultralearning Environments.

How do you make a good analogy?

Why care about learning?

Neuroscience of anxiety.

The obvious way to improve your career.

Some things that have helped me worry less.

What's the point of productivity

Why is it so hard to create permanent habits

Why waking up at 5am won't make you rich.

A subtle mistake people make when trying to grow their careers

The hidden language of top performers.

Should you target the minimum when learning a new skill?

How to learn a new language in record time.

How to stop feeling like an imposter

Are you stepping over $100 bills lying on the sidewalk?

The problem is that our experiential happiness is only loosely correlated with how happy we feel when thinking broadly about our lives. Listen to find out how we can resolve this dilemma.

Is reading making you stupid?

7 critical rules for understanding people!

How important is growth?

Can life have too much meaning?

25 Thinking Tools

There is no real you.

My update on my 10-year plan of becoming exceptional.

(Ep 39) - Explore or exploit: The hidden decision that guides your life by Scott H Young

Book recommendation for Indistractable.

The complete guide to self-control.

How to think about your life's work.

If you want to be an author, don't start writing.

I know it already and I disagree.

My thoughts about the hardest part of learning hard things.

Scott shares his thoughts about the perils of achievement bias.

Scott shares his insights about how you can get better at writing.

In this episode, we are going over the hungry brain book from Stephan Guyenet.

The ideas in this video are just some of what I teach in my 6-week course, Rapid Learner: https://www.rapid-learner-course.com/

A habit is something you do nearly automatically, given a certain situation. Many of your habits might not be so automatic. Here's what to do about it.

Should you schedule time for your hobbies? How to prevent digital distractions from eating up your time and what to do instead.

Why bother trying to remember things when everything is just a quick Google search away? Here's the real reason you need it inside your brain.

In 1967, C. West Churchman defined "wicked problems". Here's why they are prevalent in life, and how to get past their inescapable difficulties.

We all want that one key person to look up to. Unfortunately, such people are hard to find (and often have less time). Here's what you should do instead.

Work is often boring or frustrating (sometimes both)! Applying principles from a Hungarian psychologist, you can make work a lot more enjoyable.

Is ambition a good thing? Something you should cultivate or abandon? Ambition has allowed for some very positive things, but it also has a hidden dark side.

Hard goals create rapid growth. Pick standards you can't currently reach, without rejecting or lowering them to meet your current abilities.

Nearly any advice you get on improving anything implicitly fits into one of three types: minimum, average or maximum. Which you should aim at?

Would your life be better if you read less news? Should you be reading more olds instead: books and ideas that will last for more than a moment?

Should you set goals, cultivate ambition and strive for greater and better things? Or should you diminish your needs and be more accepting of life?

Why does learning have to be hard work? Why is studying such a chore? Why making your study more like play will help you learn more and have more fun.

Time is limited. But your energy, attention and enthusiasm are limited even more. How can you find time when there always seems to be so little of it?

The ability to focus on hard work for a longer period of time is essential to success in your career and studies. Here's five strategies to do this.

Chance and randomness have a big impact on our lives. Life isn't fair, but the kind of luck that impacts your life can have dramatic differences in how you should respond.

Is it better to read the Stoics, Buddhists and other ancient wisdom? Or is older advice out of date? I try to show both sides of this debate and give my recommendations.

In this episode, I discuss how to keep on track with everything even when you don't have time.

We've updated the format of our bookclub and will be breaking each month's book into smaller, shorter discussions. Hope you enjoy! This month we're reading The Case Against Education by Bryan Caplan. In this thought-provoking book, Caplan argues that the main function of education is not to enhance students' skill but to certify their intelligence, work ethic, and conformity―in other words, to signal the qualities of a good employee. The author draws on the latest social science to show how the labor market values grades over knowledge and even explains why graduation is our society's top conformity signal.

This is the wrap-up video for this month's book club where we read The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn. About the book: This is the wrap up video for this mont's book club where we read The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn. American historian and philosopher of science, Kuhn was a leading contributor to the change of focus in the philosophy and sociology of science in the 1960s. He taught at Harvard, the University of California at Berkeley, Princeton University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 1962, Kuhn published The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, which depicted the development of the basic natural sciences in an innovative way. According to Kuhn, the sciences do not uniformly progress strictly by scientific method.

This is the wrap-up video for the twelfth month of the book club. This month we read The Wizard & The Prophet by Charles C. Mann.

This is the wrap-up video for the eleventh month of the book club. This month we read The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins.

This is the wrap-up video for the tenth month of the book club. This month we read The Enigma of Reason by Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber.

This is the wrap-up video for the ninth month of the book club. This month we read Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu.

This is the wrap-up video for the eight month of the book club. This month we read The Elephant In The Brain by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson.

This is the wrap-up video for the seventh month of the book club. This month we read Seeing Like A State by James C. Scott.

This is the wrap-up video for the sixth month of the book club. This month we read Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter.

This is the wrap-up video for the fifth month of the book club. This month we read Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of The Great Stagnation by Tyler Cowen.

This is the wrap-up video for the third month of the book club. This month we read Don’t Sleep There Snakes: Life & Language in the Amazonian Jungle by Daniel Everett.

This is the wrap-up video for the third month of the book club. This month we read Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely and I'm joined by Vat Jaiswal. About the book: Why do our headaches persist after we take a one-cent aspirin but disappear when we take a fifty-cent aspirin? Why do we splurge on a lavish meal but cut coupons to save twenty-five cents on a can of soup? When it comes to making decisions in our lives, we think we're making smart, rational choices. But are we? In this newly revised and expanded edition of the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller, Dan Ariely refutes the common assumption that we behave in fundamentally rational ways. From drinking coffee to losing weight, from buying a car to choosing a romantic partner, we consistently overpay, underestimate, and procrastinate. Yet these misguided behaviors are neither random nor senseless. They're systematic and predictable—making us predictably irrational.

Kalid Azad and I discuss August’s book, Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman. This is the autobiography of the Nobel-prize winning physicist, Richard Feynman. As I make the case at the start of the video, the benefit of reading biographies is that you get to see how someone very accomplished lived and thought in ways different from you. I find this a lot more effective than reading books expounding the virtues of creativity, curiosity or courage–you actually get to see how someone who embodied those characteristics lived in concrete terms.

James Clear and I discuss July’s book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. We cover the major themes in the book as well as the author’s thought provoking interpretation of human history, contemporary society, and beyond.