I had a blast chatting with Scott Young about aggressive self-directed learning. Scott is the author of Ultralearning and famous for the MIT Challenge, where he taught himself MIT's 4 year Computer Science curriculum in 1 year. Scott has some of the best advice out there about learning hard things. It has helped yours truly prepare to interview experts and dig into interesting subjects.

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00:00 Intro

01:00 Einstein

13:20 Age

18:00 Transfer

24:40 Compounding

34:00 Depth vs context

40:50 MIT challenge

1:00:50 Focus

1:10:00 Role models

1:20:30 Progress studies

1:24:25 Early work and ambition

1:28:18 Advice for 20 yr old

1:35:00 Raising a genius baby?

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