Quotes from the book "Ultralearning"

Quotes from the book "Ultralearning".

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.

Maximize the effectiveness of Ultra learning: 

MetaLearning: First Draw a map.

Focus: Sharpen your knife

Directness: Go straight ahead

Drill: Attack your weakest point.

Retrieval: Test to learn

Feedback: Don't dodge the punches

Retention: Don't fill a leaky bucket

Intuition: Dig deep before building up.

          Experimentation: Branch out and try new approaches.

If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

A good rule of thumb is that you should invest approximately 10% of your total expected learning time into research prior to starting.

Now I will have less distraction. Leonhard Euler, mathematician, upon losing the sight in his right eye.

First step to overcoming procrastination: recognize when you are procrastinating.

Emotions can hijack the mind and make the process of returning awareness to your project feel like a Sisyphean task.

He who can go to the fountain does not go to the water jar. - Leonardo da Vinci.

Everyone learn programming or critical thinking in order to improve their general intelligence.

The idea of the Socratic method is of challenging another's ideas through probing questions rather than direct contradiction.

Especially if you combine retrieval with the ability to look up the answers, retrieval practice is a much better form of studying than the one most students apply.

Ultralearners acquire skills quickly because they seek aggressive feedback when others opt for practice that includes weaker forms of feedback or no feedback at all.

Memory is the residue of thought - Daniel Willingham, cognitive psychologist.

Retroactive interference is the opposite, where learning something new "erases" or suppresses an old memory.

Space your study sessions too closely, and you lose efficiency; space them too far apart, and you forget what you've already learned.

There's evidence that procedural skills, such as riding a bicycle, are stored in a different way from declarative knowledge, such as knowing the Pythagorean Theorem.

Procedural knowledge is stored for longer.

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

Mark Kac once posited that the world holds two types of geniuses. The first are ordinary geniuses: "Once we understand what they have done, we feel certain that we, too, could have done it.". The other type are magicians, whose minds work in such inscrutable ways that "Even after we understand what they have done, the process by which they have done it is completely dark, a magician of the highest caliber.

The principles-first way of thinking of problems is so much more effective.

The challenge of thinking you understand something you don't is, unfortunately, a common one. Researcher Rebecca Lawson calls this the "illusion of explanatory depth".

The beginning is always today.

Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in, and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select-doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief, and, yes, even beggar-man and thief.

A genius is not born but educated and trained.

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