![]() ![]() And so having some credentials is often a good foot in the door. And I think that is something that people sometimes bring up because they feel insecure about, well, what’s the point in learning something if you don’t necessarily get a credential for it, or a certificate? But the way I feel about it is that very often, what we’re looking for, both in our businesses and in our careers, is to be good at things, to understand how the world works, and to be able to use that knowledge to deliver value to our customers, our employers, the people that we work with. So that means you’ve got the MIT education, but you don’t get a degree. But I feel like overall, they were fairly minor compared to the bulk of the material that I covered. And on my website, I talked about some of the decisions I had to make to make those differences. So there was a layer of subjectivity to that, and I talk about that a little bit in my book. So you just plug in your program into the testing suite, and it gives you, yep, it works the way it’s supposed to, or nope, you did something wrong it’s got some bugs. So in this case, I was lucky that they just upload not only the exams, but also the grades for the exams or for the programming projects, often it would come with a testing suite. You have to write an essay well, then maybe it’s a little bit harder. So it’s a little bit easier to grade yourself, as opposed to, let’s say, you’re doing a history class or something. Scott: So the nice thing is, is with a subject like computer science, the exams, they come with solution keys, and they’re the kind of exams where you either got the right answer, or you didn’t. James: How did you get someone to market or score it? And so I ended up doing it over 12 months, as opposed to over four years, which is probably the more typical path for learning a degree. And because I was doing it on my own, and because I was, you know, I didn’t have the same restrictions as an MIT student did, there were a few things I could do to speed it up a little bit, as well. And I just built this sort of facsimile or kind of replica curriculum of what they would be doing and worked through the class. And so they put on their platform the MIT open course, where hundreds of classes, these are some of the best classes in the world on computer programming, mathematics, physics, economics, etc. But instead of going to MIT and getting a degree and moving to Massachusetts, what I decided to do instead was use the free resources that they put online. And basically, the project was to try to learn MIT’s four-year computer science curriculum by passing the final exams and doing the programming projects. I wanted to talk about people who got really good at things, but often not by going to school, or often by doing things in an unconventional way that in some cases, as we can talk about later, is often faster and more effective than schools.Īnd so this project I did, I did back in 2012. ![]() So the book is about what I call ultralearning, or people who take on aggressive, intense projects to learn skills on their own, as opposed to the kind of stereotype we have of learning where you spend a long time in school, and you’re studying really hard. Could you share how that happened? An MIT education in 12 months ![]() And there was a story there around your own learning experience when it came to compressing a four-year course and completing it in just one year. And it’s sold really well it’s getting great reviews. And he said, You got to talk to this guy, Scott, he can help you learn really well. We got introduced by Nir Eyal, who was a recent guest on our show, a very popular episode. James: Because of the title of your book. James: Scott, you strike me as a really smart person. And we’ll be talking about learning, with Scott Young. Download 9 Principles Of Faster, Better Learning (and the PDF transcription) ![]()
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