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Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career Hardcover – August 6, 2019

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Learn a new talent, stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and adapt to whatever the workplace throws your way. Ultralearning offers nine principles to master hard skills quickly. This is the essential guide to future-proof your career and maximize your competitive advantage through self-education.

In these tumultuous times of economic and technological change, staying ahead depends on continual self-education—a lifelong mastery of fresh ideas, subjects, and skills. If you want to accomplish more and stand apart from everyone else, you need to become an ultralearner.

The challenge of learning new skills is that you think you already know how best to learn, as you did as a student, so you rerun old routines and old ways of solving problems. To counter that, Ultralearning offers powerful strategies to break you out of those mental ruts and introduces new training methods to help you push through to higher levels of retention.

Scott H. Young incorporates the latest research about the most effective learning methods and the stories of other ultralearners like himself—among them Benjamin Franklin, chess grandmaster Judit Polgár, and Nobel laureate physicist Richard Feynman, as well as a host of others, such as little-known modern polymath Nigel Richards, who won the French World Scrabble Championship—without knowing French.

Young documents the methods he and others have used to acquire knowledge and shows that, far from being an obscure skill limited to aggressive autodidacts, ultralearning is a powerful tool anyone can use to improve their career, studies, and life.

Ultralearning explores this fascinating subculture, shares a proven framework for a successful ultralearning project, and offers insights into how you can organize and exe - cute 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 tools to build a product or business from the ground up, the principles in Ultralearning will guide you to success.

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“How do you master a difficult subject more quickly than by sitting through years of classes? Read Ultralearning for specific directions on structuring and absorbing complex topics in record time. This short book provides you with a step-by-step guide to becoming an ultra fast learner.” (Robert Pozen, author of Extreme Productivity and Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management)

“Ultralearning is the best book on learning I’ve ever read. It’s a beautifully written, brilliantly researched, and immediately useful masterpiece. If you are looking for the magic match to help light your learning, Ultralearning is it. If you want to learn anything, do yourself a favor and read this book. Now.” (Barbara Oakley, author of A Mind for Numbers and co-author and co-instructor of Learning How to Learn)

This book is an invaluable tool to help you master complicated skills in a short period of time. Read Ultralearning and level up your life! (Chris Guillebeau, bestselling author of The $100 Startup and The Happiness of Pursuit)

“Ultralearning is like a superpower in our competitive economy. Read this book! It will change your life.” (Cal Newport, author of Digital Minimalism and Deep Work)

“A truly great book about learning. Riveting, useful, practical, and applicable to anyone ready to learn something at their own pace. Ultralearning shows you exactly how to learn better than you thought possible.” (Derek Sivers, author of Anything You Want)

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Ultralearning explores this fascinating subculture, shares a proven framework for a successful ultralearning 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.

Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Harper Business (August 6, 2019)
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How to learn complex subjects quickly!

Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2019

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"Ultralearning" is a guide to learning (how to master hard skills, outsmart the competition, and accelerate your career). This is a straight-to-the-point book, filled with tools for personal growth, development, and improvement in every area of your life. This book is easy to read, but it is also "meaty", with many actionable ideas. I especially like that this book is research-based. The only issue with this book, like any self-help book, is actually implementing the strategies in your own life. I highly recommend this book. Please mark if you find my review helpful. Thank you so much!

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Jimmy

An Autodidact's Dream

Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2019

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Disclaimer: I haven't finished the book in its entirety. I will edit this review if necessary.

For the passed 15 odd years I have been in search of a comprehensive, yet comprehensible system of learning to learn. You might say it's been a bit of a quixotic journey, as the results of my efforts have been mixed.

Over that time I have encountered and tested various methods, strategies, and systems. I've explored spaced repetition and its software implementations. I've dabbled in increasing my working memory through n-back programs. I've read and attempted to implement a variety of books on learning to learn. I have read Ericcson's work on deliberate practice. I've read Adler's book on how to read a book. And quite a few more.

However, something has always been lacking. Whether it has been my inability to implement a given system or the authors' inability to communicate actionable strategies is hard to say. But, Scott Young's book seems to be the genuine article.

The book is based in solid cognitive psychology research. But, I believe its major advantage is in Mr. Young's clear prose and seamless communication style. It's my best bet that the attempts at learning to learn that I have made have been somewhat unsuccessful due to the author's ability, or lack thereof, to communicate ideas in such a way as to be actionable over the long term. This is not the case with Ultralearning. The system appears to be a cogent, well-thought-out way to truly master learning.

I'm excited to get started on an Ultralearning project.

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I did not expect to rate this book 5 stars.

Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2019

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I heard about Scott several years ago when he was in the front page of reddit for completing the MIT challenge which gained a lot of attention from students who struggled with even completing a semester of their college courses. It wasn't until recently from productivity experts James Clear and Cal Newport ( both bestselling authors ) endorsing this book that I heard about Scott again. I worried before pre - ordering this book that Scott was a guy who would do something productive once in a while then write a blog about how productive he was luring those looking for a productivity hack into his online courses that turned out not to be of much use. I'm happy to say my fears were very short lived. The first day I got this book I finished it within a sitting. Scott has so much useful guidance in this book that really helped highlight the blind spots I myself had with my school work and personal projects. I found out it was a lack of preparation and mindset from my work that has resulted in a very long learning process and much frustration. After finishing this book I can tell you this guy is the real deal. He is a productivity machine that can go for hours on end with relentless focus on anything he has set his mind to. Scott has been doing these crazy projects for several years, through much trial and error and from his failures and successes he has distilled a playbook that is filled with years of experience and expert guidance. Obtaining Scott's knowledge is an incredible advantage to have especially in such a competitive economy we have today. Reading Ultralearning will give you the advantage over all of your peers. Certainly a must-buy.

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Mohammed Al Alwan

If i have not taken Scott course rapid learner i would have given this book five star

Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2019

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I have taken two course with Scott ; rapid learner and learn more and study less.i had great results after completing these two courses and my learning and study skills improved dramatically .

scott system really works ,i have tried it in my preparation for CFA exam specially the essay part ,his strategy was very successful beyond my expectation .i also tried his system successfully in designing and completing a learning project on how to analyze banking stocks which has been new industry to me.i can tell you that his strategy work brilliantly .

So,naturaly when i saw his new book ultra-learning i pre-ordered it. What i liked about scott book is that he generalized 9 principles that ultra-learner share which provide an excellent framework on the principles of ultra learning.

One of the ultra learning principles discussed in the book is directness in which scott discuss the concept of transfer which is converting knowledge into actions.i believe that this book is a complement not a substitute for any one interested in mastering ultra-learning .so,if you are interested in the book i recommend you check his course because the course help you in converting these principles into actions much clearly than reading the book.

What I did not like about the book is that it lacks the directness and transfer of how to implement these principles compared with his course .The course is much more practical on how to implement the principles discussed in the book.As a result,i will give the book four star.

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Chris Guillebeau

A dangerous book that will challenge your thinking

Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2019

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I've been following Scott's work for a decade ... and I'm so glad this book is finally out to the world. I read an advance version a few months ago but just picked up another copy for my Kindle. If you'd like to learn how to master languages, hack the MIT curriculum, and generally pursue life as the grand adventure it should be, you need your own copy of Ultralearning. My only complaint is that it should come with a warning label: "Don't read this book if you'd like to be the same afterwards." Scott is the real deal, and so is this book.

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Absolute waste of time

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 16, 2019

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This book is about nothing, the beginning goes on and on how some guy had ultralearned topics, without going into actual detail as to how, pages and pages, of stories. Then when it gets into detail mid book, you are told about these "principles" of ultralearning like sharpen your focus, research the subject you're about to learn, talk to someone who already knows it... Loads and loads of just common sense bog standard stuff. Very little usable content, the author is more suited to writing fiction than this type of material, which needs to be objective to the point, filled with usable content rather, stories....

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Chiraag

Learn anything DEEPLY and QUICKLY and Future-Proof your Career

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 19, 2019

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I absolutely loved this book. Whilst I had heard about Scott Young previously, I had not read any of his books and I have now become a big fan.

The book starts with a Forward from James Young - the Author of Atomic Habits. I highly recommend that book as well and James reflects how his success from an unproven author to a bestselling author was also down to Ultralearning just without him realising he was applying this framework of learning. There is a mention of Cal Newport and his books on Digital Minimalism, Deep Work, So Good They Can't Ignore You are all great books that compliment Ultralearning.

Ultralearning is Performance-Driven Learning. Taking on learning of ambitious learning projects that are only considered for those who are Geniuses or special skills. Ultralearning is the skill of deeply acquiring and applying skills.

Scott is an Ultralearner himself and has taken on many projects of Ultralearning from the MIT Challenge in 2011-2012 where he learnt a 4 year MIT Computer Science Curriculum in 12 months, A Year without English in 2013-2014 where he learnt Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin Chinese and Korean, to the Portrait Drawing Challenge in 2016 where. through rapid feedback, he learnt how to draw faces realistically.

Scott briefly introduces some of these but to give context to Ultralearning. This is not a book about him bigging up himself, he spends lots of time talking about the stories of different people who have taken on UltraLearning projects and the strategies they have used for this.

What I especially love is the fact that he presents 9 principles for you to become an Ultralearner. He has come up with the 9 principles, being especially careful of ensuring that these principles can be applied and are not just idiosyncrasies of an individual.

He covers 9 main principles:

- Meta-learning
- Focus
- Directness
- Drill
- Retrieval
- Feedback
- Retention
- Intuition
- Experimentation

The book looks at methods that are validated through scientific research and controlled experiments. It, therefore, provides great concepts that can be applied for any Ultralearning project.

Whilst some of the concepts may be known concepts e.g. Focus principes, using the pomodoro technique, dealing with procrastination and distraction. There are so many things he talks about which help dive deeper into understanding the concepts explained.

For example, when he takes about directedness he goes into details of various ways of doing this from Project-Based Learning, Immersive Learning, The Flight Simulator Method and the Overkill Approach.

When talking about direct practice and drills he delves into Time Slicing, Cognitive Components, Copycat, Magnifying Glass method and Pre-Requisite Chaining.

These are just a few examples of several strategies he goes through in each and every principle.

Each chapter has a story of different people who have taken on Ultralearning projects, whether it is a librarian who learnt Data Analysis Skills, Someone who become fluent in a language in just 3 months, an Architecture graduate who got a job through directness and getting skills that got him a job in the recession or someone getting into the semi-finals of a world public speaking championship without having any public speaking skills at all.

Scott brings to life the concepts through the stories and explaining the relevance. I like how Intuition and Experimentation are also important principles with Scott doing a great job of explaining Richard Feynman's Intuitive expertise and Vincent van Gogh's experimentation (He started late in his painting career and had no obvious talent).

The book title sums this up very well - Accelerate Your Career, Master Hard Skills and Outsmart the Competition. This book certainly gives you a framework to be able to do this. It does not promise to make it easy for you, in fact, it does highlight that this does require active effort and is a hard process. However, it is possible and the book is an enabler to help you build an Ultralearning attitude.

This is a short book of about 265 pages but is probably something you would use for reference as you think about the Ultralearning projects you are looking to take on. I am super excited about the possibilities this book demonstrates and the inspiration from various people who have taken on Ultralearning projects. I will be reading this a few times and will be doing lots of thinking of how I can use these principles for my first Ultralearning projects amongst many more in the future. I highly recommend this book. It is a game-changer.

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Sul

Old, tired and not worth a read.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 17, 2019

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Very disappointed. This book is basic, unimaginative and frankly boring. Essentially it tells you to have a goal, research and plan your learning, set time aside and then work hard at learning it. What’s new Scott. Don’t waste your money on this book. If you took the stories out of this book there wouldn’t be much of it left. It strikes me that Scott is just trying to cash in.....great title though, pity there’s nothing ‘ultra’ in it.

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Dr. Ian Pitchford

Concise and clear

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 8, 2019

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Ultralearning is “a strategy for acquiring skills and knowledge that is both self-directed and intense.” The book is Young’s clear, concise, and well-written explanation of how to master this strategy. The excellent chapter on metalearning alone is worth the price of the book and the rest is full of insights and tips that are noteworthy and practical. Get it, read it, and start putting ultralearning principles to practice in your own life.

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Beautifully Written, Brilliantly Researched, Immediately Useful

Reviewed in India on August 26, 2019

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Do you want to learn/understand a new or difficult subject/skill in relatively short period of time than it should/usually takes to pursue?

Do you want to know the skillset to get rid of the self-sabotaging habit of procrastination which makes you less accomplished than you could have been?

Do you want to catch up with the subjects or a degree or a goal which you have had abandoned a long time ago but have plans to resume all over again?

Do you want to acquire a "superpower" that helps you to outsmart the competition?

Then, my friend, this book is an invaluable tool for you. Read it, understand it, implement it, and master complicated skills by becoming an ultra-fast learner.

Whether you are a student, or trying to learn a new language (in both sense, you know what I mean), or need to add a new skillset to enhance your professional profile, or struggling to concentrate on your studies, or getting ready for an examination, you should absolutely read this brilliantly researched and beautifully written masterpiece.

I'd like to recommend an another book with similar impact, if you do not already know the name: "Deep Work" by Cal Newport.

Best of luck.

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Gravemonk

The handbook and masterpiece of the learning prodigy. The content is priceless.

Reviewed in India on August 10, 2019

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Well I am following Scott young from a long time and following his blogs and challenges. I had already collected all of his 4 books while pre order and bonus and read them which is a priceless content.
The book is recommended to who ever want to learn a content, skill and pursue the goal of improving themselves. The real time examples and linked to the principle helps anyone to understand what how and why to apply all the information of this book into their life. I love how it is linked to real life situation and practical strategies and yes even tactics. Without saying more thanks to Scott young for his 10 years of research into this book. Whoever is a student want to save 10 years of experience can read this book.

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Moderately Interesting, Moderately Useful

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 12, 2019

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This book basically surveys a number of ultralearning projects and tries to derive some common principles of success frmo them, mixed with recent ideas about how learning actually takes place. It uses something between anecdotes and case studies to explore the kind of projects that might be considered as "ultralearning" and how they were carried out. Some of the successes are quite eye-opening!
There isn't much magic in the book in the sense that most of the techniques and approaches described have been written about elsewhere. It becomes pretty clear that determined focus is pretty key and it may be doubted whether most people are temperamentally equipped to succeed with these strategies, or that most people's personal circumstances with work and family commitments would allow them. That said, the projects are quite varied (computing, public speaking, foreign languages, etc.), well described and anyone looking to do such a project themselves would probably benefit from reading this book, even if only to re-consider if they really want to do it.
The writing is okay and it is an easy enough read. This book moderately interesting and moderately useful, assuming that other readers are excited by the idea of ultralearning in the first place and is recommended on that basis alone.

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DenzilB

Excellent ideas but you have to apply it to get results. It’s in the doing...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 17, 2019

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This is a really good book for anyone who wants to break down a subject and learn it quickly. I bought a copy for both my girlfriend and I.

She instantly started a project to get a new job, and used all the principles to learn about the company, she landed the job and is learning everything about the products.

Her next project is learning to illustrate.

I’m working through the planning stages on ultra learning Entrepreneurship, so the techniques can be applied to a multitude of subjects.

I’ve followed Scott’s blog for a few years now and he’s excellent!!

I’ve always been an ultra learner but this gave me another approach to absorb and use.

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Bela leitura: doido pra ter a tradução para o português!

Reviewed in Brazil on December 5, 2019

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O título faz parecer ser um livro de auto ajuda. Não deixa de ser na medida em que é sobre técnicas que vão lhe ajudar a obter melhores resultados em suas pesquisas.

Entretanto vai MUITO além disto, mas muito além mesmo: é um verdadeiro estudo de epistemologia e muito bem fundamentado, com diversas referências bibliográficas e mesmo personagens reais que, ao serem pesquisados, enriquecem ainda mais a leitura.

A leitura é muito interessante e segue os princípios pregados pelo autor. São apresentados princípios de aprendizagem e cada capítulo representa um destes princípios. Começa com um exemplo prático, ilustrado por uma história real de alguém (uma das personagens) e, na sequência, este exemplo é analisado expondo quais foram os acertos e estratégias seguidas por aquela pessoa para obter sucesso no aprendizado.

Uma das melhores leituras que fiz em 2019 sem dúvidas.

Doido para sair em português para que possamos ter estas ideias melhor discutidas aqui no Brasil.

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Excellent

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 22, 2019

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Excellent. Useful advice for how to structure learning projects in order to master difficult skills. I found the ideas around experimenting and bottlenecks very helpful.

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Simple is best!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 2, 2019

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Seven steps, all laid out with tips and technique and laced together with stories to bring it to life and to persuade you of its value.

Already looking forward to trying this out on my first project.

A must read for anyone learning something or perhaps with kids and you want to inspire them.

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Silenus

Orientierungshilfe für die persönliche Lernstrategie

Reviewed in Germany on November 5, 2019

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Seit vielen Jahren mache ich mir Gedanken darüber, wie ich mir Fähigkeiten und Wissen am besten erarbeite. Dabei habe ich einiges an Lernmethoden, Mnemotechniken, Konzentrationsübungen mehr oder weniger erfolgreich ausgetestet. Mit diesem Buch habe ich nun ein Destillat aus der aktuellen Lern- und Hirnforschung zur Hand; gespickt mit persönlichen Erfahrungen des Autors und anderen erfolgreichen „Ultralernern“, wie auch bekannten Persönlichkeiten, welche meine Erkenntnisse teilweise bestätigen, in Frage stellen oder präzisieren.

Es ist nicht so, dass man mit diesem Buch eine Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitung serviert bekommt, die einem einen optimalen Pfad für beliebige Lernvorhaben vorgibt. Es bietet einem aber einen ausführlichen Überblick welche Lernstrategien sich bewährt haben, und welche vielversprechenden Ansätze die neueste Forschung auf dem Gebiet bereit stellt. Die neun Prinzipien, die sich daraus ableiten, dienen als Orientierung um seine persönlichen Weg zu finden, und typische Fehler zu vermeiden.

Für mich war zum Beispiel die Einsicht wertvoll, sich anfangs nicht zu lange mit Theorie aufzuhalten, sondern direkt (3.Prinzip: Directness) die Fähigkeit, die man meistern möchte, in Angriff zu nehmen.
Das ist, vor allem zu Beginn, nicht einfach, da man in dieser Phase schnell auf Widerstände stößt, welche den Lernfortschritt behindern. Diese Hindernisse gilt es der Reihe nach zu überwinden (4.Prinzip: Drill), um sich danach, besser gewappnet, dem Haupt-Lernpfad, widmen zu können. Damit vermeidet man, an seinem vorher definierten Ziel (1.Prinzip: Metalearning) vorbeizulernen, und sich auf die wesentlichen Aspekte des Themas zu konzentrieren.

Anhand der Fallbeispiele von Personen, welche einige der vorgestellten Prinzipien verfolgten, und auch zur Perfektion getrieben haben, wird die potentielle Mächtigkeit der Konzepte illustriert, und es zeigt sich, dass vor allem die Hingabe zum jeweiligen Lernobjekt eine wichtige Voraussetzung für außergewöhnliche Leistungen ist.

Allgemein gilt die Faustregel: Wenn das Lernen zu leicht vonstatten geht, ist es ein Indiz dafür, dass es gerade wenig effektiv abläuft. „Ultralearning“ ist kein Spaziergang, sondern es gehört eine gehörige Portion Disziplin und Durchhaltevermögen dazu, um die Früchte dieses Ansatzes ernten zu können. Gleichzeitig wird darauf hingewiesen beim Erstellen des individuellen Lehrplans darauf zu achten, sich nicht völlig zu überfordern, damit der innere Miesepeter nicht Oberwasser bekommt. Wer hier die richtige Balance findet, hat gute Chancen schnelle Fortschritte zu machen, und sich durch die Freude am neu Erlernten für das nächste Etappenziel zu motivieren.

Ich habe die Prinzipien aus dem Buch weitestgehend in meinen Lernalltag integriert, und erste Erfahrungen gesammelt. Wieviel Zusatznutzen ich daraus ziehen kann, lässt sich abschließend erst beurteilen, sobald ich meine aktuellen Lernprojekte abgeschlossen, oder aufgegeben, habe. Die ersten Eindrücke sind auf jeden Fall vielversprechend.

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Ok - nichts neues

Reviewed in Germany on October 7, 2019

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Das Buch ist ok. Leserlich - auch mit Schulenglisch. Inhaltlich ist es ein wenig oberflächlich - wenn man es wie ich in der Hoffnung auf lernpsychologische/methodische Ideen und Anregungen gekauft hat. Die vom Autor formulierten Prinzipien, Schritte sind teilweise selbsterklärend und nichts neues.

Ansonsten ist es motivierend autodidaktische Lernprojekte anzugehen.

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Ian Howlett

Well-written, with lots of actionable insights

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 7, 2019

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I really enjoyed this book. It's well-written, and is easy to read. There are lots of stories and examples, and lots of actionable insights and strategies you can use.

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NevJamGal

Useful study tips

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 4, 2020

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The techniques in this book are useful for mature students and ones who have yet to leave education.

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