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    Get Better at Anything: 12 Maxims for Mastery
    Get Better at Anything: 12 Maxims for Mastery
    Get Better at Anything: 12 Maxims for Mastery
    Audiobook7 hours

    Get Better at Anything: 12 Maxims for Mastery

    Written by Scott H. Young

    Narrated by Scott H. Young

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    About this audiobook

    The author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller Ultralearning explores why it’s so difficult for people to learn new skills, arguing that three factors must be met to make advancement possible, and offering 12 maxims to improve the way we learn.

    Life revolves around learning—in school, at our jobs, even in the things we do for fun. Yet learning is often mysterious. Sometimes it comes fairly effortlessly: quickly finding our way around a new neighborhood or picking up the routine at a new job. In other cases, it’s a slog. We may spend hours in the library, yet still not do well on an exam. We may want to switch companies, industries, or even professions, but not feel qualified to make the leap. Decades spent driving a car, typing on a computer, or hitting a tennis ball don’t reliably make us much better at them. Improvement can be fickle, if it comes at all.

    In Get Better At Anything, Scott Young argues that there are three key factors in helping us learn:

    See—Most of what we know comes from other people. The ease of learning from others determines, to a large extent, how quickly we can improve.

    Do—Mastery requires practice. But not just any practice will do. Our brains our fantastic effort-saving machines, which can be both a tremendous advantage and a curse.

    Feedback—Progress requires constant adjustment. Not just the red stroke of a teacher’s pen, but the results of hands-on experience.

    When we’re able to learn from the example of other people, practice extensively ourselves, and get reliable feedback, rapid progress results. Yet, when one, or all, of these factors is inhibited, improvement often becomes impossible. Using research and real-life examples, Young breaks down these elements into twelve simple maxims. Whether you’re a student studying for an exam, an employee facing a new skill at work, or just want to get better at something you’re interested in, his insights will help you do it better.

    Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateMay 7, 2024
    ISBN9780063256668
    Get Better at Anything: 12 Maxims for Mastery
    Author

    Scott H. Young

    Scott Young is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Ultralearning, a podcast host, computer programmer, and an avid reader. Since 2006, he has published weekly essays to help people learn and think better. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Pocket, and Business Insider, on the BBC, at TEDx, and other outlets. He doesn’t promise to have all the answers, just a place to start.

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    • 3/5
      I absolutely love his first book "Ultralearning", but this one really felt like a bit of a waste of time.

      I thought this would be a bunch of interesting examples of masters and how they went about mastering their craft.
      Instead it's just: this guy did a cool thing - some uninteresting and uninsightful research about it - then some bullet points at the end, it didn't feel like he dissected the methods that those people used to get to the level they are at, he kind of attempted to, but not really.
      The whole entire book can be summed up into SEE - PRACTICE - FEEDBACK, you watch experts do their thing, then you do the thing, then you get feedback on the thing.
      It's literally repeating this same thing over and over and over, honestly you can just skip to the last chapter and not really lose much at all, he adds nothing to this basic loop of see-practice-feedback.

      His first book is an absolute masterpiece and I will continue to read it every couple of years, but this one felt just uninsightful? wasteful? I don't really feel like I know more now than I did before listening to this audiobook.
      Maybe I got the wrong idea about what this book was going to be.

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