How To Learn Anything Fast

It is a strategy for acquiring skills and knowledge. Ultralearning is a potent skill for dealing with a changing world. It has 3 main characteristics:

• It is a strategy. A strategy is not the only solution to a given problem, but it may be a good one.
• It's self-directed. It’s about how you make decisions about what to learn and why.
• It's an intense process. Ultralearners always search for and take unusual steps to maximize their effectiveness in learning.

Learning is no longer something that stops when you graduate. Life long learning is a valuable skill because of:

• Economics: Average is over. But even if the economic landscape is rapidly changing may, we can engineer our response to it by aggressively learning the hard skills we need to thrive.
• Education: Ultralearning can fill some of those gaps when going back to school isn’t an affordable option.
• Technology: The space of learning possibilities is immense, just waiting for ambitious autodidacts to come up with new ways to exploit it.

1. Meta-learning: Start by learning how to learn
2. Focus: Carve out time in your day
3. Directness: Learn by doing.
4. Drill the weakest points: Break down complex skills into small parts.
5. Retrieval: Test yourself to grow
6. Feedback: Don't let your ego get in the way
7. Retention: Understand what you forget and why
8. Intuition: Develop your intuition through play and exploration.
9. Experimentation: Get outside your comfort zone by cultivating an experimental mindset.