Ultralearning

There are three main ways you can apply the ideas of ultralearning, even if you have to manage other commitments and challenges in your life: new part-time projects, learning sabbaticals, and reimagining existing learning efforts.

Though this may seem like a case where directness no longer matters, that really isn’t true. It’s simply that the place you want to apply these ideas is less obvious and concrete.

Retention: Don’t Fill a Leaky Bucket.

obsessive intensity and retrieval practice.

The tactic here is to find a way to drill only one component when, in practice, others would be applied at the same time.

A more sophisticated answer to the question of when and how to do research would be to compare the marginal benefits of metalearning to regular learning.

Tactic 5: Closed-Book Learning

In such moments, recognize that by not reacting to the emotion at the level of abandoning your task entirely, you’ll diminish its intensity in the future. You’ll also strengthen your commitment to continue working in future situations like this, so they will become easier.

THE VALUE OF ULTRALEARNING