Ultra learning

1. Metalearning

Meta learning is learning about learning. Being able to see how a subject works, what kind of skills and information must be mastered, and what methods are available to do so more effectively is at the heart of success of all ultralearning. Metalearning forms the map, showing you how to get to your destination without getting lost.

• Over the short term, you can do research to focus on improving your meta learning before and during a project
• A good ultralearning project. With excellent materials and an awareness of what needs to be learned, has the potentnial to be completed faster than formal schooling.

Step:

• Determine what, why, and how
  • Understand your motivation to learn. Break things down into concept, facts.

The expert interview method

Reaching out and setting up a meeting with an expert isn't hard. But it's a step many people shy away from

Step:

• Write down on a sheet of paper three columns with the heading: Concepts, facts, procedures

The emphasize/exclude method

• If you're learning french with the idea of going to paris. You should focus a lot more on pronunciation than being able to spell it correctly.

The 10 Percent Rule

You should invest approximately 10 percent of your total expected learningtime into research.

2. Learn

• Directness: Is the practive of learning by directly doing the thing you want to learn.

3. Feedback

There are 3 types of feedback

• Outcome feedback: Are you doing it wrong?
• Informational feedback: What are you doing wrong? This feedback tells you're what you're doing wrong but it doesn't necessarily tell you how to fix it
• Corrective feedback: How can you fix what you are doing wrong? This is the feedback that not only shows you what you are doing wrong but also how to fix it

4. Retrieval

Free recall

• After reading a section from a book or sitting through a lecture, try to write down everything you can remember on a blank piece of paper.

Question-book method

• Most students take notes by copying the main points as they encounter them.
• However another strategy for taking notes is to rephrase what you’ve recorded as questions to be answered later
• Restate the big idea of a chapter or section as a question.

Self Generated challenges

As you go through passive material, you can create challenges for yourself to solve later. You may encounter an new technique and write sample code to demonstrate that techniqe.

5. Retention

• 2 theories explain why our brain forget of what we initially learn.
  • 1 Decay with time
  • 2 Interference: Overwriting Old Memories with New One

Instead of learning a large volume of knowledge or skills evenly:

• Emphasize a core set of information much more frequently, so that it become procedural and it stored far longer
• Overlearning: Additional practice, beyond what is required to perform adequately can increase the length of time that memories are stored.

Moving up a level to a more advanced skills enabled the earlier skills to be overlearned, thus preventing some forgetting

Memory mechanism: A picture retains a thousand words

6. Experimenting

• Tactic 1: Copy, then create. In an attempt to emulate or copy an example you appreciate, you must deconstruct it to understand how it works
• Tactic 2: Combine 2 unrelated skills to create distince advantage The traditional path to mastery is to take a well-defined skill and practice it relentlessly until you have become insanely good at it. However for many areas of creative or professional skills. Path is to combine two skills that don't necessarily overlap to bring about a distinct advantage that those who specialize in only one of those skills do not have