For those who know how to use technology wisely, it is the easiest time in history to teach yourself something new.

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<li>Meta-learning: Learning how to learn the subject or skill.</li>
<li>Focus: Carve out time in your day, and block out all distractions.</li>
<li>Directness: Go Straight into Application</li>
<li>Drill: Attack Your Weakest Point Relentlessly</li>
<li>Retrieval: Testing your knowledge as a way of assessing and creating knowledge.</li>
<li>Feedback: Evaluate how to use your knowledge without letting your ego get in the way.</li>
<li>Retention: Memorise the important steps until they become natural.</li>
<li>Intuition: Play around with your knowledge and explore different concepts and skills.</li>
<li>Experimentation: Get outside your comfort zone and apply your new skills in the unfamiliar parts of your life.</li>
</ul>

The 9 Ultralearning Principles

Beware of the things that could be distractions: • Your Environment: Be aware of what environment you work best in, switch off your phone, or block all notifications. • Your task: We are all oriented different, so some tasks may be easier to accomplish than others - break down your task into smaller parts. • Your mind: The mind is restless and constantly working on formulating ideas but it is possible to quiet the mind to achieve the result. Remember to take breaks now and then - meditate, drink some mint tea ,let the mind drift then return your focus. EVERY DISTRACTION IS ABOUT YOU!

Distraction 

Learning is a skill that has to be mastered like the arts. It's all good and well to want to learn but learning is only a means to an end. 
When mastered it can open up a whole new world of possibilities for you.

Learning To Learn

Procrastination is often the result of being distracted from the ultimate goal. Multitasking is unsuitable for ultra learning - REMEMBER TO FOCUS

Procrastination

A strategy for gaining skills and knowledge:
<ul>
<li>Be intentional -make decisions about what to learn and why.</li>
<li>Be Obsessed - explore different ways to achieve your desired outcome. </li>
<li>Be intense about the subject you take on.</li>
</ul>

Ultralearning

YES, learning has to be and CAN be learnt! 

Now a Wall Street Journal bestseller. Learn a new talent, stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and adapt to whatever the workplace throws your way. Ultralearning offers nine principles to master hard skills quickly. This is the essential guide to future-proof your career and maximize your competitive advantage through self-education. In these tumultuous times of economic and technological change, staying ahead depends on continual self-education—a lifelong mastery of fresh ideas, subjects, and skills. If you want to accomplish more and stand apart from everyone else, you need to become an ultralearner. The challenge of learning new skills is that you think you already know how best to learn, as you did as a student, so you rerun old routines and old ways of solving problems. To counter that, Ultralearning offers powerful strategies to break you out of those mental ruts and introduces new training methods to help you push through to higher levels of retention. Scott H. Young incorporates the latest research about the most effective learning methods and the stories of other ultralearners like himself—among them Benjamin Franklin, chess grandmaster Judit Polgár, and Nobel laureate physicist Richard Feynman, as well as a host of others, such as little-known modern polymath Nigel Richards, who won the French World Scrabble Championship—without knowing French. Young documents the methods he and others have used to acquire knowledge and shows that, far from being an obscure skill limited to aggressive autodidacts, ultralearning is a powerful tool anyone can use to improve their career, studies, and life. Ultralearning explores this fascinating subculture, shares a proven framework for a successful ultralearning project, and offers insights into how you can organize and exe - cute a plan to learn anything deeply and quickly, without teachers or budget-busting tuition costs. Whether the goal is to be fluent in a language (or ten languages), earn the equivalent of a college degree in a fraction of the time, or master multiple tools to build a product or business from the ground up, the principles in Ultralearning will guide you to success.

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Productivity

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Now a Wall Street Journal bestseller.Learn a new talent, stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and adapt to whatever the workplace throws your way. Ultralearning offers nine principles to master hard skills quickly. This is the essential guide to future-proof your career and maximize your competitive advantage through self-education.In these tumultuous times of economic and technological change, staying ahead depends on continual self-education—a lifelong mastery of fresh ideas, subjects, and skills. If you want to accomplish more and stand apart from everyone else, you need to become an ultralearner. The challenge of learning new skills is that you think you already know how best to learn, as you did as a student, so you rerun old routines and old ways of solving problems. To counter that, Ultralearning offers powerful strategies to break you out of those mental ruts and introduces new training methods to help you push through to higher levels of retention. Scott H. Young incorporates the latest research about the most effective learning methods and the stories of other ultralearners like himself—among them Benjamin Franklin, chess grandmaster Judit Polgár, and Nobel laureate physicist Richard Feynman, as well as a host of others, such as little-known modern polymath Nigel Richards, who won the French World Scrabble Championship—without knowing French. Young documents the methods he and others have used to acquire knowledge and shows that, far from being an obscure skill limited to aggressive autodidacts, ultralearning is a powerful tool anyone can use to improve their career, studies, and life. Ultralearning explores this fascinating subculture, shares a proven framework for a successful ultralearning project, and offers insights into how you can organize and exe - cute a plan to learn anything deeply and quickly, without teachers or budget-busting tuition costs.Whether the goal is to be fluent in a language (or ten languages), earn the equivalent of a college degree in a fraction of the time, or master multiple tools to build a product or business from the ground up, the principles in Ultralearning will guide you to success.

Scott Alexander Young was a Canadian journalist, sportswriter, novelist and the father of musician Neil Young. Over his career, Young wrote 45 books, including novels and non-fiction for adult and youth audiences.

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