Scott Young - Ultralearning

斯科特·杨 - 极速学习

Dwarkesh Podcast

2020-11-17

1 小时 38 分钟
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Scott is the author of Ultralearning and famous for the MIT Challenge, where he taught himself MIT's 4 year Computer Science curriculum in 1 year. I had a blast chatting with Scott Young about aggressive self-directed learning. Scott has some of the best advice out there about learning hard things. It has helped yours truly prepare to interview experts and dig into interesting subjects.   Watch on YouTube. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any other podcast platform. Podcast website here. Check out Scott’s website. Follow me on Twitter for updates on future episodes. Buy Scott’s book on Ultralearning: https://amzn.to/3TuPEbf Timestamps (00:00) - Intro  (01:00) - Einstein  (13:20) - Age  (18:00) - Transfer  (24:40) - Compounding  (34:00) - Depth vs context  (40:50) - MIT challenge  (1:00:50) - Focus (1:10:00) - Role models  (1:20:30) - Progress studies  (1:24:25) - Early work and ambition  (1:28:18) - Advice for 20 yr old  (1:35:00) - Raising a genius baby? Get full access to Dwarkesh Podcast at www.dwarkesh.com/subscribe
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  • I feel like people are just way too unambitious in general and not in like the ambition,

  • like I want to be better than other people way, but they just don't think of big projects.

  • They don't work on them.

  • They don't, they don't have like, you know, big dreams to do cool things.

  • Or if they are, it's usually just something like,

  • I don't know, you just boils down to something like social status.

  • Like I want to be the, you know, the person that does this, that's better than other people.

  • I don't know,

  • I feel

  • like I don't know how you change that but I do think that rewarding kind of a culture where you want to do kind of ambitious original things that are kind of interesting and you don't know where they're going to lead.

  • I think that that's having that in you is kind of rare and I think that cultivating it is probably good for yourself and society.

  • Okay, today I have the pleasure of speaking with Scott Young,

  • who is the author of the book, Ultra-Learning.

  • Accelerate your career, master heart skills, and outsmart your competition.

  • So Scott, I'll ask you some practical questions in a second.

  • But first, let's talk about Einstein and Newton.

  • So they both had an annus marabolus,

  • a miracle year within which many of their important contributions were concentrated.

  • What explains this phenomenon of miracle years?

  • Well, I don't know.