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Scott H Young Podcast — 320 episodes
(EP 316) - The real reason you procrastinate
(Ep 315) - Nir Eyal Interview: Beyond Belief Book Review
(Ep 314) - Foundations Conversation Month 12 Update - Service
(EP 313) - Foundations Conversation Month 11 Update - Organization
(EP 312) - Foundations Conversation Month 10 Update - Focus
(EP 311) - Foundations Conversation Month 9 Update - Connection conversation
(EP 310) - Foundations Conversation Month 8 Update - Reflection
(Ep 309) - Foundations Conversation Month 7 Update - Sleep
(Ep 308) - Foundations Conversation Month 6 Update - Outreach
(Ep 307) - Foundations Conversation Month 5 Update - Reading
(EP 306) - Foundations Conversation Month 4 Update - Food
(EP 305) - Foundations Conversation Month 3 Update: Money
(Ep 304) - Foundations Conversation - Month 2 Update Productivity
(Ep 303) - Foundations Conversation - Month 1 Update: Fitness
(Ep 302) - An antidote to our brain’s tendency to overcomplicate simple things
(Ep 301) - My 7 rules for happiness
(Ep 300) - When procrastination is productive
(Ep 299) - The science of mental models
(Ep 299) - The science of mental models
(Ep 298) - My New Book "Get Better At Anything" is now available!
(Ep 297) - Get Better At Anything Comes Out Next Week!
(Ep 296) - How to learn vocabulary in a new language
(Ep 295) - 5 Keys to Get the Most out of the Feynman Technique
(Ep 294) - The infinite library problem
(Ep 293) - The Science of Learning Physics
(Ep 292) - Does Everyone Learn at the Same Rate? An Intriguing Experiment
(Ep 291) - My New Book: Get Better at Anything (Special Offer for Preorders)
(Ep 290) - The 6 Causes of Burnout (and How to Avoid It)
(Ep 289) - The paradox of productivity
(Ep 288) - The 10,000-Hour Rule is a Myth
(Ep 287) - 5 Ways to Make Studying Fun (Without Sacrificing Effectiveness)
(Ep 286) - The 10 Best Books I Read in 2023
(Ep 285) - 6 Strategies for Learning New Things (When You Have Kids)
(Ep 284) - Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy- How to Change Your Mind
(Ep 283) - How to learn anything easily
(Ep 282) - Why Build a Life of Focus?
(Ep 281) - Deciding Your Next Decade
(Ep 280) - Why You Can’t Put Down Your Phone
(Ep 279) - Lesson 1: How to Get Into a Focused State Quickly
(Ep 278) - The 15 People Who Have Most Influenced My Thinking
(Ep 277) - What Does Research Say is the Best Way to Learn a Language
(Ep 276) - My #1 rule for writing
(Ep 275) - Self-Efficacy: The Key to Understanding What Motivates You
(Ep 274) - 18 Life Lessons I’d Give My 18-Year-Old Self
(Ep 273) - The Simple Rule for Achieving Ambitious Goals
(Ep 272) - 7 Expert Opinions I Agree With (That Most People Don’t)
(Ep 271) - Why I'm not more popular
(Ep 270) - The Mind is a Computer
(Ep 269) - Overcoming Procrastination, Input Hypothesis, Time Management and Motor Skills
(Ep 268) - Range, Learning Styles, Nootropics, Value Of Learning Things You’re Doomed To Forget
(Ep 267) - Eight of My Unanswered Questions About the Best Way to Learn
(Ep 266) - The Problem with Being Too Patient
(Ep 265) - Why Flashcards Beat Mnemonics for Studying
(Ep 264) - The Key to building rare and valuable skills
(Ep 263) - Before You Burn Yourself Out Working, Do This
(Ep 262) - Lesson 2: The Simple Economic Theory That Explains Whether You’ll Have a Great Career
(Ep 261) - Lesson 1: Who Cares what Warren Buffett eats for lunch?
(Ep 260) - When is Learning Worth the Effort?
(Ep 259) - The complete guide to working memory
(Ep 258) - When are Minimal Habits Useful for Learning
(Ep 257) - Seven Steps for Making a Solid Studying Plan
(Ep 256) - Ten Great Books on How to Learn Better
(Ep 255) - 10 Ways You Can Use ChatGPT to Learn Better
(Ep 254) - Recent Reading- Creativity, Mastery and the Three Phases of Learning
(Ep 253) - Some thoughts on becoming self-actualized
(Ep 252) - Ten of My Favorite Papers on the Science of Learning and Thinking
(Ep 251) - How much transfer can you expect
(Ep 250) - Are we losing the ability to read books
(Ep 249) - No, ChatGPT Doesn’t Mean You Don’t Need to Learn Things
(Ep 248) - Creativity is productivity
(Ep 247) - Learning fast and slow
(Ep 246) - How my views on learning have changed over time
(Ep 245) - What Would You Do With More Time?
(Ep 244) - The Underrated Usefulness of Taking a Time Log
(Ep 243) - The Key to Sustainable Productivity
(Ep 242) - Needing to Pay Attention is a Novel Problem
(Ep 241) - Why Do People (Usually) Learn Less as They Get Older?
(Ep 240) - The Intermediate Plateau
(Ep 239) - Curated Consumption: A Saner Approach to Online Media
(Ep 238) - The ten-book rule for smarter thinking
(Ep 237) - 10 mental models for learning
(Ep 236) - Good advice is obvious
(Ep 235) - What Classes Should I Study to Land a Job?
(Ep 234) - Why didn't more people take the MIT challenge
(Ep 233) - 7 Books on the Science of Learning
(Ep 232) - Variability not repetition is the key to mastery
(Ep 231) - Avoiding Flashcard Hell
(Ep 230) - Rapid Learner Lesson 4: Why you need a learning sytem
(EP 229) - Rapid Learner Lesson 3: How to approach any exam with confidence
(Ep 228) - Rapid Learner Lesson 2: Which matters more method or motivation
(EP 227) - Rapid Learner Lesson 1: You've never been taught how to learn
(Ep 226) - Failure is a lousy teacher
(Ep 225) - Brain training doesn't work
(Ep 224) - Building Confidence in Communication with Tristan de Montebello
(Ep 223) - Maximize learning time with these 7 habits
(Ep 222) - 85 percent rule for learning
(Ep 221) - What work matters
(Ep 220) - Why people stop improving
(Ep 219) - How to find your next step
(Ep 218) - The key to career progress
(Ep 217) - Practice Made Perfect: The 10 Keys to Optimize Improvement
(Ep 215) - More Recent Reading: Viking Law, Backgammon Strategy, The History of Alchemy and more…
(Ep 216) - You're never too good for the basics
(Ep 214) - The 10 best books on productivity
(Ep 213) - You should pay for tutors
(Ep 212) - No, you haven't forgotten everything
(Ep 211) - Building A Second Brain - Tiago Forte
(Ep 210) - Do you learn more by struggling on hard problems
(Ep 209) - Book Review - Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs
(Ep 208) - More recent reading
(Ep 207) - Sustaining motivation, judging experts and the meanings of life
(Ep 206) - See-do-feedback - The correct way to practice
(Ep 205) - How to decide what to work on
(Ep 204) - Cultural literacy
(Ep 203) - What i've been reading
(Ep 202) - Desirable Difficulties: When Harder is Better for Learning
(Ep 201) - Construction integration model
(Ep 200) - How Do We Learn Complex Skills? Understanding ACT-R Theory
(Ep 199) - Why don't we use the math we learn in school
(Ep 198) - The science of achievement - 7 research-backed tips to set better goals
(Ep 197) - New research shows I was right about watching lectures faster
(Ep 196) - Cognitive load theory and its applications for learning
(Ep 195) - 7 books that have challenged and changed my thinking
(Ep 194) - How much do you need to know before getting started?
(Ep 193) - Which works better habits or projects
(Ep 192) - Learning by doing - when does it work, when does it fail
(Ep 191) - What if you don't feel smart enough
(Ep 190) - The craft is the end
(Ep 189) - 10 interesting books on how to think and learn
(Ep 188) - You're trying to do too much
(Ep 187) - The project driven life
(Ep 186) - Want to write for a living - 7 things I wish I knew
(Ep 185) - Is modernity a myth
(Ep 184) - I'm 33
(Ep 183) - Lessons Learned from 5 Years and 5000+ Students in Top Performer
(Ep 182) - Is life better when you're busy?
(Ep 181) - Why aren't there more apprenticeships?
(Ep 180) - Book recommendation - Uncommon Sense Teaching
(Ep 179) - 10 Best tools to stay mentally sharp at work
(Ep 178) - Metrics - Useful or Evil?
(Ep 177) - What are the best arguments against doing the real thing
(Ep 176) - What is understanding
(Ep 175) - Beware tractability bias
(Ep 174) - How becoming a dad changed my thoughts on productivity
(Ep 173) - Digging the well
(Ep 172) - 14 Books On Learning by Doing, Apprenticeship and Transfer
(Ep 171) - A new understanding of effort
(Ep 170) - Make your life better by doing less
(Ep 169) - How I do research
(Ep 167) - How to think for yourself
(Ep 168) - The key to find time for learning
(Ep 166) - The science behind building general skills
(Ep 165) - The 10 central strategies for deeper learning
(Ep 164) - Should you use flashcards to learn
(Ep 163) - Some reflections on being off social media
(Ep 162) - My 10 favourite free online classes
(Ep 161) - How hard should you work
(Ep 160) - Book recommendation: A world without email
(Ep 159) - Could you learn every subject
(Ep 158) - 10 ideas that have shaped my life
(Ep 157) - How to improve your self awareness
(Ep 156) - Why we struggle to motivate ourselves
(Ep 155) - The neuroscience of motivation
(Ep 154) - Inspiration is overrated
(Ep 153) - The productivity frontier
(Ep 152) - Smarter people take more risks
(Ep 151) - 10 foundational practices for a good life
(Ep 150) - How much can you change yourself
(Ep 149) - How to take notes
(Ep 148) - The key to making risky decisions
(Ep 147) - What's the best way to learn biology
(Ep 146) - How to stay focused
(Ep 145) - How to be more satisfied with your spare time
(Ep 144) - On doing your life's work
(Ep 143) - It's time to reclaim your mind
(Ep 142) - Are you missing this essential foundation for good life
(Ep 141) - Fearing forgetting: Should you try to maintain or relearn knowledge?
(Ep 140) - How to become more curious
(Ep 139) - Paradox of effort
(Ep 138) - The boring and vastly underrated art of planning
(Ep 137) - The value of learning useless things
(Ep 136) - What are the Limits of Building Better Habits?
(Ep 135) - Piers Steel - The science behind procrastination
(Ep 133) - 7 essential focus rituals
(Ep 134) - What is beyond self-improvement
(Ep 132) - Complete guide to motivation
(Ep 131) - How to teach yourself anything in less than three months
(Ep 130) - How Einstein learned physics
(Ep 129) - Two types of growth
(Ep 128) - How to study for a standardized test
(Ep 127) - How to finish your work, one bite at a time
(Ep 126) - Audio, Paper or Kindle: What's the best way to read a book
(Ep 125) - Set an unbreakable standard
(Ep 124) - What is productivity guilt
(Ep 123) - If you want to be fit, don't buy new running shoes
(Ep 122) - How to pick which books to read
(Ep 121) - The 7 most common learner mistakes
(Ep 120) - Seven principles of learning better from cognitive science
(Ep 119) - The Overkill Approach: How to solve the hardest problems you face
(Ep 118) - Five scientific steps to ace your next exam
(Ep 117) - The surprisingly narrow path to success
(Ep 116) - The all-important difference between effort and effectiveness
(Ep 115) - You probably have too much motivation
(Ep 114) - The 10 best mental models
(Ep 113) - How to commit to things you start
(Ep 112) - Boost your motivation to learn hard things
(Ep 111) - Get better at the things you do every day
(Ep 110) - The perfect studying routine
(Ep 109) - How to quickly extract the best insights from a huge topic
(Ep 108) - How much faster could you learn
(Ep 107) - What's next?
(Ep 106) - The hard way is the easy way
(Ep 105) - Rethinking self-discipline
(Ep 104) - How successful was the MIT challenge?
(Ep 103) - How much of your career is running to stay in the same spot
(Ep 102) - Set goals in the middle
(Ep 101) - Choose your signal wisely
(Ep 100) - Cal Newport: The narrow path to success, fatherhood & challenging conventional wisdom
(Ep 98) - Week two Macedonian
(Ep 99) - Do the real thing
(Ep 97) - Week one Macedonian
(Ep 96) - Seven rules for long-term productivity
(Ep 95) - New project: Learning Macedonian
(Ep 94) - Being and time - An interesting book you probably shouldn't read
(Ep 93) - I was wrong about speed reading: here are the facts
(Ep 92) - Seven habits that seem lazy (but actually let you get more done)
(Ep 91) - How important is work
(Ep 90) - Core ideas of self-improvement
(Ep 89) - Is your path a staircase or a circle?
(Ep 88) - Designing the perfect practice loop
(Ep 87) - How to build skills that matter
(Ep 86) - Now’s the perfect time to start an ultralearning project
(Ep 85) - Information overload is a fake problem
(Ep 84) - How fast should you be when learning
(Ep 83) - Why It's so hard to stick to your goals
(Ep 82) - How does age change how you learn?
(Ep 81) - The power of being weak
(Ep 80) - On keeping your word
(Ep 79) - How to start your own ultralearning project part 2
(Ep 78) - How to start your own ultralearning project part 1
(Ep 77) - Success is stamina - to win means to keep playing
(Ep 76) - You fail to reach your goals because you design them badly
(Ep 75) - Your life problems are learning challenges in disguise
(Ep 74) - You have to be willing to get cut
(Ep 73) - Too tired to do everything? How to live better without burning out
(Ep 72) - The complete guide to increasing your focus
(Ep 71) - Unpopular Opinion: Don't just get started
(Ep 70) - Do you need to be smart to learn certain subjects
(Ep 69) - Learning to code is easy: Here's how to teach yourself
(Ep 68) - Is mastery more like a wedge or a knife
(Ep 67) - How to worry less what other people think of you
(Ep 65) - Why is taking action hard
(Ep 66) - The 5 habits to fall asleep on time every night
(Ep 64) - Unraveling the enigma of reason
(Ep 63) - The complete guide to memory
(Ep 62) - Ultralearning Environments: Why where you learn determines how much you learn
(Ep 61) - How do you make a good analogy
(Ep 60) - Why care about learning
(Ep 59) - Neuroscience of anxiety
(Ep 58) - The obvious way to improve your career
(Ep 57) - Some things that have helped me worry less
(Ep 56) - What's the point of productivity
(Ep 55) - Why is it so hard to create permanent habits
(Ep 54) - Why waking up at 5am won't make you rich
(Ep 53) - A subtle mistake people make when trying to grow their careers
(Ep 52) - The hidden language of top performers
(Ep 51) - Should you target the minimum?
(Ep 50) - How to learn a language in record time
(Ep 49) - How to stop feeling like an imposter
(Ep 48) - Are you stepping over $100 bills lying on the sidewalk?
(Ep 47) - Are you living life or just planning your biography?
(Ep 46) - Is reading making you stupid?
(Ep 45) - The critical 7 rules to understand people
(Ep 44) - How important is growth?
(Ep 43) - Can life have too much meaning?
(Ep 42) - Twenty-five useful thinking tools
(Ep 41) - There is no “real” you
(Ep 40) - Update on My 10-Year Plans at Becoming Exceptional
(Ep 39) - Explore or exploit: The hidden decision that guides your life
(Ep 38) - Book recommendation: Indistractable
(Ep 37) - The complete guide to self control
(Ep 36) - How to think about your life's work
(Ep 35) - If you want to be an author don't start writing (and other strangely useful career advice)
(Ep 34) - “I already know what to do, I just don’t do it.” I disagree.
(Ep 33) - The hardest part about learning hard things
(Ep 32) - Do you even want success (the perils of achievement bias)
(Ep 31) - How should I get better at writing?
(Ep 30) - Book Recommendation: The Hungry Brain
(Ep 23) - Five scientific steps to ace your next exam
(Ep 22) - Do you have habits or just commitments?
(Ep 29) - Who has time for hobbies?
(Ep 28) - Why memorize?
(Ep 27) - Life’s wicked problems (and how to get past them)
(Ep 26) - Useful Career Tool: Look for partial mentors
(Ep 25) - Bored with your job? The recipe for enjoying your work
(Ep 24) - Is ambition a good thing? Thoughts on striving without selfishness
(Ep 23) - Impossible Standards: The 3-step process to reach new heights in your work and life
(Ep 22) - Should you target the minimum?
(Ep 21) - Should you follow less news?
(Ep 20) - Should you strive to desire more or less
(Ep 19) - Play is learning
(Ep 18) - How to find time
(Ep 17) - How to cultivate mental stamina
(Ep 16) - The three different types of luck
(Ep 15) - Is old advice better?
(Ep 14) - Habit Stacking: How to keep up with everything (When you don't have time)
Why Do People Go To School [The Case Against Education - 1]
(Ep 13) Book Club: The structure of scientific revolutions
(Ep 12) - Book Club: The wizard and the prophet
(Ep 11) - Book Club: The selfish gene
(Ep 10) - Book Club: The enigma of reason
(Ep 9) - Book Club: Tao te ching
(Ep 8) - Book Club: The elephant in the brain
(Ep 7) - Book Club: Seeing like a state
(Ep 6) - Book Club: Godel, Escher, Bach
(Ep 5) - Book Club: Average is over
(Ep 4) - Book Club: Don’t sleep there are snakes
(Ep 3) - Book Club: Predictably irrational
(Ep 2) - Book Club: Surely you’re joking, Mr. Feynman
(Ep 1) - Book Club: Sapiens, a brief history of humankind