The Louis and Kyle Show

Scott Young: Author of Ultralearning and Co-Creator of Life of Focus - Distilled Wisdom on Motivation, Education, and Productivity

Episode Summary

Scott Young, author of Ultralearning, joins us to discuss the best ideas from his decade of writing and teaching about productivity, learning, motivation, philosophy, and success. Scott is also the Co-Creator of Life of Focus, a 3-month course he teaches with Cal Newport.

Episode Notes

Scott Young  started his blog when he was 17 and has been writing there for his entire adult life. That blog, where he shares ideas for learning, living, and working better served as the stepping stone to where he is today: a bestselling author, respected thinker, and accomplished entrepreneur.

To test out his theories of learning how to learn, Scott completed challenges like:

• Completing MIT's undergrad computer science curriculum in 12 months
• Self-teaching quantum mechanics
• Learning sketching by drawing portraits every day for a month
• Spending a year without speaking English, and learning four languages

Scott has been on our list of people to interview from the very beginning, so this is a very exciting podcast for us to release.

Links:

Scott's Blog:  https://www.scotthyoung.com/

Life of Focus: https://www.life-of-focus-course.com/waitinglist.html

Ultralearning: https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/ultralearning/

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