Ultralearning

Scott Young's guide to intense self-directed learning projects — drawn from his MIT Challenge (completing the 4-year CS curriculum in 12 months) and other radical learning experiments.

The ultralearning methodology: directness (learn by doing the thing, not studying about it), drill (identify weaknesses and isolate them), retrieval (testing beats re-reading), feedback (get immediate, accurate signal), and metalearning (research how to learn the subject before studying it). Young demonstrates through dramatic projects (MIT in a year, fluency in 4 languages in a year) that aggressive self-directed learning can dramatically compress skill acquisition timelines.