According to the book by Scott H Young, “Ultralearning is a strategy for aggressive, self-directed learning.” Simply speaking, it is a way of dealing with the ever changing world by taking the power of effective learning into your own hands.

It’s about taking decisions concerning the idea o...

• Start by learning the ‘how’ of learning. To put it simply, understand how you want to learn the new skill.
• Practice makes perfect, so try to implement what you’re learning in everyday life.
• Your comfort zone is your biggest enemy. Step out of it when it comes to learning new ...

Some of the work that we wish to pursue can be a little too difficult, making it easier for other things to distract us, or simply seem like a “better” use of our time. That’s when the idea of breaking complex tasks into simpler task comes into play. When you try to do something complex it’s diff...

It’s obvious enough, the things in and around your surroundings hold the power to grab your attention and distract you from the work right infront of you. Surrounding yourself with a “learner friendly” environment is essential to make the most out of your learning time.

To test out how wel...

The biggest distractor! If you feel constantly distracted, without it being your environment or any other external medium, it might be that it’s all internal!
The negative emotions – depressive, angry thoughts, the whirlwind of thoughts travelling in your head, the daydreamings, the million n...

Interleaving is another skill that people who are forever learning swear by, especially while learning something new.
It is all about spacing out the learning process over a long period of time, randomising the information and frequent active recalling of past information that has been already...

1. To learn a concept completely, it’s important to understand it fully. And to understand something thoroughly visualising it plays a very big role.
2. Practicing everything you learn – be it in the form of tests or quizzes or even using it in real life situations helps fixing something t...