Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career

Researchers generally find that people retain more of what they learn when practice is broken into different studying periods than when it is crammed together.

As the saying goes, “In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.”*

If you’re pursuing a project for mostly instrumental reasons, it’s often a good idea to do an

Intrinsic projects are those that you’re pursuing for their own sake.

I think there are lots of potential ways the declarative-to-procedural transition of knowledge might be applied by clever ultralearners in the future.

starting, sustaining, and optimizing the quality of one’s focus.

additional step of research: determining whether learning the skill or topic in question will actually help you achieve your goal.

Directness is the idea of learning being tied closely to the situation or context you want to use it in.

Benchmarking and the Emphasize/Exclude Method.