ULTRALEARNING Book Summary || For Those Who Have Read The Book

 0-> Belief : That you can do it

1-> Metalearning : 

Why,What & How ?

Expert Interview

What : Concepts,Facts & Procedures

How : Benchmarking, Emphasize/Exclude , 5% to 10% of Total

2-> Focus :

Dont try to fix but Manage Procrastination & Distraction

Procrastination : Feeling of Pain / Uneasiness , 

Start Doing it For 5 min soon it will vanish

Distraction Source : Environment , Your Task & Mind

3-> Directness :

Spend a lot of time doing the thing you want to become good at.

*Project Based Learning

*Immersive Learning

*Flight Simulator Method

*The Overkill Approach

4-> Drill:

Attack your weakest point.

Identify the rate determining step and isolate and practice it.

The Direct-then-Drill Approach

Drill Ways :

*Time Slicing

*Cognitive Components

*Copycat

*Magnifying Glass Method

*Prerequisite Chaining

Mindful Drilling

5-> Retrieval:

The Testing Effect

Is Difficulty Desirable?

What  Should be retrieved?

How : 

*Flash Cards

*Free Recall

*The Question Book Method

*Self Generated Challenges

*Closed Book Learning

6-> Feedback :

What kind of Feedback do you need?

  *Outcome Feedback : Are you doing it wrong?

  *Informational Feedback : What are you doing wrong?

  *Corrective Feedback : How can you fix what you are doing wrong

How to improve Feedback ?

  *Noise Cancellation

  * Hitting the difficulty sweet spot

  *Metafeedback

  *High Intensity Rapid Feedback

7-> Retention : 

Ebinghaus Forgetting Curve

Hypothesis of forgetting :

*Decay

*Interference

*Forgotten Cues

How to prevent forgetting ?

*Spacing:Repeat to Remember

*Proceduralization : Automatic will endure

*Overlearning : Practice Beyond Perfect

*Mnemonics

8-> Intuition :

*Do not ask whether a statement is true until you know what it means

*Do not Give Up On Hard Problems Easily

*Prove things to understand them

*Start with a concrete example

*Don't Fool Yourself

* Work the problem step by step

9-> Experimentation

*Experiment with learning resources

*Experimenting with Technique

How :

*Copy & then Create

*Compare Methods Side by Side

*Introduce New Constraints

*Explore the Extremes

*Find Your Superpower in the Hybrid of Unrelated Skills

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