Scott H Young
Learn faster, achieve more
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- 1,734 from 24 Feb 2006 to 28 Oct 2026
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Latest
October 2026
- Should You Study The Solutions Or Solve Problems?
- The Key to Creating Learning Projects You’ll Finish
- The Best Way to Take Notes
- The Simple Method That Boosts Memory by 50%
September 2026
- Reach the Top 1% of Your Field (Deliberate Practice)
- You Should Care Less About Practical Advice
- How to stop forgetting what you read
- Book Review: China’s Examination Hell
August 2026
July 2026
- Discouraged? Here’s How to Stay Motivated
- We Need Guidelines for Learning and AI
- How to Learn Creative Skills
June 2026
- How to Find Time for Learning
- How Habits Actually Work
- Your Problem Isn’t Willpower
- What’s the Ideal Amount of Exercise?
- Focus is Motivation
May 2026
- Why I’m Skeptical About Efforts to Revolutionize Schooling
- How to Read Better Books
- What if We’re Already Living in Utopia?
April 2026
- I Wrote Ultralearning. This is What I’d Change Because of AI
- How to Motivate Yourself to Do Anything
- How to Motivate Yourself to Exercise Regularly
- Reflections on Writing for 20 Years
March 2026
- Lesson Four: The Opposite of Burnout
- Lesson Three: Rhythmic Productivity—A More Humane Way to Work
- Lesson Two: Life Doesn’t Need to Be Exhausting
- Lesson One: The Human Energy Crisis
- Book Recommendation: Beyond Belief
- Does This Psychological Quirk Explain Parkinson’s Law?
February 2026
- Feeling Tired? Here Are 7 Things We Get Wrong About What Gives Us Energy
- The Relaxation Paradox: Why Zoning Out Doesn’t Always Restore Your Energy
- How to Make Hard Work Feel Easy
- My New Book: Foundations
January 2026
- How Stress Impacts Your Energy Levels
- What Exactly is Energy?
- Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time
- How to Learn Taste
December 2025
- My Favorite Books (and Essays) of 2025
- The Most Underrated Productivity Technique
- How to Read One Book Per Week (Even if You Read Slowly)
- 5 Strategies to Learn Better with AI (and Traps to Avoid)
November 2025
- Will AI Make Us Stupid?
- Is Vibe Coding the Future of Skilled Work?
- What’s Still Worth Learning in a World With AI?
October 2025
- Lesson 3 – What You’ll Achieve in Foundations
- Lesson 2 – What’s Your “Good Enough”?
- Lesson 1 – Why Foundations?
- My Foundations Project Is Now Complete
- 102 Lessons from the 102 Books I Read This Year
- Service – Month-End
September 2025
- Ten Books on Doing Good
- 12 Things I Changed My Mind About After Researching for Foundations
- The One-Month Knowledge Sprint: How to Read Books, Take Action, and Change Your Life
- Service – Day One
August 2025
July 2025
- Focus – Month-End
- The Attentional Junk Food Hypothesis
- Eight Books on Focus
- Focusing on Your Strengths Isn’t Always Good Advice
- Focus – Day One
June 2025
- Connection – Month-End
- 7 Books (and 1 Paper) on How to Have Better Relationships
- How Should You Choose Your Career?
- Connection – Day One
May 2025
- Reflection – Month-End Update
- Insights from 8 Books on Reflection
- 22 Thoughts on Using AI to Learn Better
- Reflection – Day One
April 2025
- Sleep – Month-End Update
- Eight Books for Getting a Better Night’s Rest
- Lesson 4: Happiness is the expansion of possibility
- Lesson 3: The surprising secret to flow
- Lesson 2: The three questions for effective meta-learning
- Lesson 1: How to start projects you’ll actually finish
- Sleep: Day One
March 2025
- Outreach – Month-End Update
- Here are 8 Books I Read on Making Friends This Month
- Should You Quit? Ask These Four Questions First
- Outreach – Day One
February 2025
- Reflections on a Month for Reading
- Just Trust the Experts
- Reading – Day One Update
- Food – Month-End Update
January 2025
- Lesson Four: How Life of Focus Works
- Lesson Three: Why You Can’t Focus
- Lesson Two: More Craft, Less Chores
- Lesson One: Do Something Big This Year
- What I Learned (and Unlearned) Reading 10 Books on Nutrition
- Food – Opening Update
December 2024
- Money – Month-End Update
- Insights from Ten Useful Books on Money
- My Best Essays in 2024
- Money – Day One
November 2024
- Productivity – Month-End Update
- The Key Lessons from 10 Important Books on Productivity
- Is Speaking Multiple Languages Overrated?
- Productivity – Opening Update
October 2024
- Fitness – Month-End Update
- What I Learned About Getting in Shape After Reading 13 Books This Month
- How to Form Habits in Real Life
- 5 Tips for Staying Focused (When You’re Stressed)
- Fitness: Day One
September 2024
- What Could You Change in a Year?
- How To Be Well Rounded
- Where’s Your Blind Spot?
- 12 Obvious (and 12 Not-So-Obvious) Tips for Living Better
- The Foundations for Success and Happiness Are the Same
August 2024
- A Solid Foundation is More Than Just Good Habits
- I’m 36
- 5 Ways to Increase Your Learning Throughput
- The Three Gaps
July 2024
- No, AI Doesn’t Mean You Won’t Need to Learn
- The sweet spot: Why more effort is not always better
- The Twelve Foundations for a Good Life
- The Universal Foundations for a Good Life
June 2024
- You’re Trying to Do Too Much
- The Most Overlooked Way to Be More Productive
- The Science of Learning Movement Skills
May 2024
- Talking About Getting Better
- The 7 Reasons You Stop Improving (and How to Keep Getting Better)
- Ultralearning or Get Better at Anything: Which Book is Better?
- Get Better at Anything is Now Available
April 2024
- My 7 Rules for Happiness
- When Procrastination is Productive
- The Science of Mental Models
- How to Learn Vocabulary in Another Language
March 2024
- 5 Keys to Get the Most out of the Feynman Technique
- My New Book: Get Better at Anything (Special Offer for Preorders)
- The Infinite Library Problem
- The Paradox of Productivity
February 2024
- My Simple Habit for Smarter Book Reading
- The 6 Causes of Burnout (and How to Avoid It)
- Does Everyone Learn at the Same Rate? An Intriguing Experiment
January 2024
- The Science of Learning Physics
- The 10,000-Hour Rule is a Myth
- Why Build a Life of Focus?
- Decide Your Next Decade
- The Psychology Behind Why You Can’t Put Down Your Phone
- How to Get Into a Focused State Quickly
- 5 Ways to Make Studying Fun (Without Sacrificing Effectiveness)
December 2023
- My 10 Most Popular Essays of 2023
- The 10 Best Books I Read in 2023
- 6 Strategies for Learning New Things (When You Have Kids)
- Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: How to Change Your Mind
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