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Future-proof your career and maximize2 your competitive advantage by learning the skill necessary to stay relevant, reinvent yourself and adapt to whatever the workplace throws your way in this essential guide. Faced with tumultuous economic times and rapid technological change, staying ahead in your career depends on Continual learning a lifelong mastery of new ideas, subjects and skills. If you want to accomplish more and stand apart from everyone else, you need to become an ultra learner. Scott young incorporates the latest research about the most effective learning methods and the stories of other ultra learners like himself among them Ben Franklin, Judit polgar and Richard Feynman, as well as a host of others, such as little-known modern polymath like Nigel Richards who won the world Championship of French scrabble without knowing French. Young documents the methods he and others have used and shows that, far from being an obscure skill limited to aggressive autodidact, ultra learning is a powerful tool anyone can use to improve their career, studies and life. Ultra learning explores this fascinating subculture, shares the nine principles behind every successful ultra learning project and offers insights into how you can organize and execute 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 skills to build a product or business from the ground up, the principles in ultra learning will guide you to success.
