Ultralearning is a strategy for aggressive, self-directed learning. Self-directed means that, rather than waiting to pay for expensive tuition and tutors, you can take back control. Aggressive means that, instead of spending years at something without getting great, your limited time and effort are always directed towards what works. More from Scott Young here.
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Think you mastered reading in high school? Think again. Reading effectively for understanding and knowledge is different to reading for entertainment.
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When feedback gets our back up.
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Let us consider that the development of a new way might require not just an open mind, or a preference or tendency towards intimacy and vulnerability, but something more.
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To re-orientate from “Am I good enough?” Or “do I measure up?” towards a posture of “How and What could I contribute here?”. Practicing this small change created a ripple in my life that extended further than I could see at the time.
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Sometimes in going for the big win, we neglect the small changes that could make the most difference.
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In a famous speech in the 1990s, Charlie Munger summed up the approach to practical wisdom through understanding mental models by saying: “Well, the first rule is that you can’t really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang ’em back. If the facts don’t hang together on a latticework of theory, you don’t have them in a usable form. You’ve got to have models in your head. And you’ve got to array your experience both vicarious and direct on this latticework of models. You may have noticed students who just try to remember and pound back what is remembered. Well, they fail in school and in life. You’ve got to hang experience on a latticework of models in your head.”
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A great speech on changemakers here by Maria Giudice. People who can solve problems based on evolving circumstances. Changemakers. People who can see the patterns around them. Identify the problems in any situation. Figure out ways to solve the problems. Organise fluid teams. Lead collective action. Continually adapt as situations change. Designers are change makers. […]
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Watch how Valor Collegiate Academies, a public school in Nashville, TN, uses its character development program to change how students experience school. Thank you @ Lauren Cutuli for the nudge on this one.
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