Get Better at Anything
by Scott H. Young
Young's twelve maxims for learning drawn from research: see (learn from others), do (practice with feedback), feedback (correct errors), with examples from Tetris champions, air traffic controllers and chess. More rigorous than Ultralearning and less personal.
Read it if…
you want research-grounded principles for improving at a skill.
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Skip it if…
you want a memoir of learning feats; see Ultralearning.
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Three things you will actually use
- Learn from examples before trial and error.
- Practice must be variable and feedback-rich.
- Difficulty should be calibrated, not maximal.
Do this first
Find an expert's worked example of the skill you are learning and copy it before practicing freely.
Our verdict
Rigorous learning maxims.
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