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162. Ultralearning MIT's 4-Year CS Degree in 12 Months and Future of Learning, Creativity and Purpose | Scott Young

162. Ultralearning MIT's 4-Year CS Degree in 12 Months and Future of Learning, Creativity and Purpose | Scott Young
Dec 8, 2019 · 53m 21s

Scott Young (@ScottHYoung) is a blogger, traveler, author, self-experimenter and ultra-learner that took MIT’s entire 4-year programming curriculum in a year. He’s the author of Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart...

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Scott Young (@ScottHYoung) is a blogger, traveler, author, self-experimenter and ultra-learner that took MIT’s entire 4-year programming curriculum in a year. He’s the author of Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career and runs a podcast looking at career advice, learning, growth, productivity, philosophy and more.

In today’s episode we discuss:
- How Scott completed a 4-year MIT programming degree in 12 months
- Secrets to learning smarter, and faster
- The reasons MOOCs failed and didn’t
- Ways to redesign education for the 21st century
- How to deal with filter bubbles and bias
- Scott’s thoughts on productivity, purpose, and results
- Lessons learned from travel
- Why Scott’s not convinced about biohacking and brain augmentation
- Was Harvard right in their racial discrimination
- How to increase your comfort zone and creativity
- What Scott’s learned about happiness and internal reflection
- Where should someone today focus their efforts
- Why software is eating the world
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