Ultralearning
Key Takeaways
The reason why I started reading this book, was because I wasn't really doing well in any of my classes. I came across this book from one of my friend's video who scored a 5 on his AP calculus exam with just 5 days worth of studying. It took me awhile to finish this book but here are my key takeaways:
- Spend a lot of time doing the thing you want to become good at
- Learn by doing the thing you want to become good at. If you want to learn a lanaguage, practicing by speaking the language with a native speaker
- Do careful experiments as they bring out your best potential while also eliminating bad habits
- Seek aggressive feedback
- Explain the concept to someone
- Take the time to do the task, you want to sustain interest in order to stay persistent
- Avoid situations where you will feel bad/good about your performances
- Learn to remember things not just for now but forever. Understand what you're consistently forgetting and do something about it
- Develop intuition through play and exploration of concepts and skills. Understand how understanding works
- Explore outside your comfort zone
- Test yourself
- For most people, their profession is their income. For rich people, their assets are their income