What if I told you that there is a way for you to learn much faster? This was the method used by Scott ONG, the guy who completed the MIT curriculum in just one year, in a quarter of the original time. Today's video will be about ultra learning.
Guys, this entire video will be based on Scott's book NGO. I'll leave the link to the book below in the description and if you want to purchase it, it will help me a lot if you use my link first. Who is this Scott?
Young, according to the website's own biography, is a programmer and best-selling writer. And Scott Young. Throughout his life, he met some people who were known for their ability to learn quickly and as he was so impressed with their achievements, he began to question himself, what made these people, these accelerated learners, highly effective?
Researching these people and also finding basis in them. Science in learning studies, he developed his accelerated learning method and Scott Young, he began to be known for the MIT challenge, right, which I already mentioned before, because everyone knows, right, that MIT is an institution very recognized and recognized for being difficult too, right? So for a guy to finish a 4-year curriculum in 1 year studying alone is really impressive.
Then people became more and more curious, right? To find out. That was possible.
And in Scott Young's book, he lists 9 principles of ultra learning and right away, the first principle is meta learning. Remember that meta means talking about yourself? So meta learning is nothing more than research into the very thing you want to learn.
For example, let's say you want to learn dancing, do you post on YouTube how to learn to dance in 1 year? As? I learned to dance as a beginner, and then you will actually make a selection of the techniques and methods that worked the most and were most effective for people.
And this doesn't even need to be something so-called professional, it doesn't because what we see as traditional in teaching are people who take a long time to learn. After you have already chosen the best methods, you precisely map out your learning path. First I will study the history of the dance, then I will start with such steps that are key to.
For me to learn the rest, then I will focus on the specific dance I want to learn. It's really a planning stage there. And for God's sake, don't underestimate this step, because if you don't do adequate planning, how will your execution be good?
And even more so, how are you going to learn something quickly? In the second stage, we will focus. And Scott Young says that you need to learn to focus, to concentrate, because you won't learn anything quickly.
If you can't concentrate, how? As I've already made an entire video about focus, I'll leave it here on the card for you, so this video doesn't get too long, because there are still several principles ahead. So watch a video about focus, then this one.
The third principle is direct practice, and that means immersion. You immerse yourself in what you are doing. I think the most common example we can give in these cases is when you go to a country for an exchange, when you are learning a language, because there, you know, you are completely submerged in the activity you learned.
And you are forced to deal with it all the time in your everyday life. But as we mortals say, we are not in a position to exchange for everything. And learning languages is not just any activity, everyone’s main goal.
Other forms of direct practice that Scott Young advises are, for example, simulations. Let's suppose you want to learn to play an instrument, give yourself simulations to perform. Using that instrument, if you want to improve your speaking skills, do simulations.
Speaking in public, it could be for your family, for your cat. And this principle is very important, because Scott Young, he even talks about a problem we have in education, which is transfer. In this case, the problem is that we don't make this transfer.
Sometimes you get the theory there, you study it, you study the theory, it's wonderful, you answer questions, you know how to say what such a thing is, but at the time you. You need to really deal with that problem, demonstrate your ability. You panic, you are incompetent, you don't do that well.
And forcing ourselves to practice this activity directly is one way to avoid this. It's a way of ensuring that the knowledge you are having, learning, will actually be transferred into reality when necessary. The fourth principle is repetition, and here this concept refers to your weaknesses, because Scott Young explains it to a lot of people.
People, when you're learning, you tend to avoid the things you're bad at and prioritize and spend more time on the things you're good at. But this could be a big mistake, because you could be leaving out points from the material, points from that content that are essential for you to become good at it. Let's suppose you are giving yourself a contest and you are going to use the other learning you have learned to master a math subject.
Then you see that wow, you're really good at arithmetic, you. It's great, but in geometry you won't either. Then, instead of following the voices in your head and never practicing geometry, you will focus more on geometry than the rest, because you know that it is a very important initial step if you really want to master all mathematics in the future.
Although this example I gave is impossible, right? I don't know a person who masters all mathematics, but whatever. When editing, I realized that I simply skipped principle 5, which is recovery, that is, remembering what you learned, which also goes into principle 7 of retention.
Quizzes, exercises challenge yourselves whenever you will be remembering the content successfully. The sixth principle is return, and here I think the translation of this book was bad. What the author calls feedback is basically what he explains himself, which is feedback.
A lot of people, but a lot of people, even when they are learning, make the mistake of not having it. Feedback is even more important if you are self-taught, right? Which I suspect is the category that you who are watching me fall into.
Feedback, my loves, is very important because we, human beings, can evaluate ourselves, right? Right. But it doesn't mean that we evaluate ourselves well, because if you're learning something, you don't have enough technical knowledge to evaluate yourself perfectly.
And someone who has been through the same thing. The way you are or is a professional in the field, she is generally much more competent to tell you what you are doing wrong and what tips you could choose to accelerate mastery of this skill. And there are several ways that you can acquire this feedback.
You can pay for a 1-hour class from a teacher who is from that field, if you have friends from that field who do that activity. The bad thing is, whenever you ask them, Ah, friend, I recorded the video here singing, can you help me? Can you tell me if I'm out of tune?
But be very careful too, because Scott, he says that another mistake people have in relation to feedback is that sometimes they don't separate feedback from noise. And what is the noise? The noise is the well-known non-constructive criticism.
If you started drawing and want feedback on how your drawing is going, post it. It's on the forum. Then you receive a bunch of comments insulting you.
This, in addition to doing nothing for you and not helping your learning in any way, could very well leave you unmotivated, insecure about your own abilities. Scott. He is very incisive about the fact that you need to filter.
These noises, you can't let the noises get to you because they don't matter. And even when sometimes people have good intentions, but they don't know about the subject. You know that the person doesn't know how to dance, they've never had a dance class, they don't know anything about dance thermals, even if their intentions are good.
Why would you take her opinion about your performance as an absolute truth? Are you going to introduce it into your learning method and not even question whether it is actually wrong and we are already reaching the end? The seventh principle is retention.
And retention refers to you continuing to have the knowledge you are learning, keeping it always fresh in your memory. There are several ways to train your memory and be able to remember. What did you learn from?
I've also made another video about this, which is how to remember what you study, I'll leave it here on the card for you. But basically, anything that tests you periodically can help. Using spaced repetition, for example, is something he recommends, because then you ensure that you have that knowledge, but you also don't make any unnecessary revisions.
You review it according to the growth curve. The eighth principle is intuition and here the author will propose it to us. Challenge of learning deeply, because if you want to be an ultra learner, you can't stick to the basics.
You will learn things much faster if you really challenge yourself. You know that thing about feiman, where you keep reviewing your own concepts, asking yourself what you think you've already learned? Do this with the thing you want to master.
Question things from another angle, ask questions about things that no one has ever asked. Why, right? Even.
Commenting that when our brain finds something interesting, when it finds something different, it tends to store it more easily. Instead of just memorizing the orders of the piano keys, you try to understand why the keys are arranged that way. With the logic behind it, what's the story?
The probability is that you will never forget it and mark it little by little. The logic of that material, that content, it gets into you so much that you start to say it. I will check this intuition.
Sometimes you don't even know how to explain it, but just having contact with it for so long, having delved deeper into it, you start to see it the way professionals do. And the ninth and final principle is experimentation that we see. We all know the story of van Gogh and van Gogh, right?
He is one of the greatest painters who ever lived. What draws attention to us about this van Gogh story is that van Gogh, unlike that culture. At the time it was Ah, I want to be a painter, so I go to an art studio.
He decided to learn on his own, experimenting. So he observed the work of painters of different styles. He would start copying there, trying to do something similar, and developing his own style from that.
And van Gogh's style, in the end, was so unique and so unpredictable that it enchants us to this day. Now imagine if we could reproduce this in our learning? Because many.
Sometimes creativity and excellence are not hidden in the traditional method, but in the tangle of things you don't know until you test them. So he told you to do this, to venture out, to try different resources, different styles, different techniques for your learning. Sometimes you hear about someone who got great at a drawing practice, doing something really crazy and of course, if that makes any sense, you.
You can try experimenting too. If you want to sing better, see which singers you like, what do they have in common? Why do you like one and don't like the other?
What technique does this one do? Which sounds better than this technique. And you don't need to create everything from scratch, just study the people who have already done it.
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