Taylor reviewed Ultralearning by James Clear
Review of 'Ultralearning' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
You’re in good company when your book is recommended by James Clear and Barbara Oakley.
Ultralearning shares some overlapping information with Atomic Habits and Learning How to Learn, but stands on its own with valuable self-study strategies taught in the "Nine Universal Principles of Ultralearning". There’s also overlapping topics from Range (by David Epstein), to the point that both books have chapters on the Polgár family and Vincent van Gogh.
The methods taught in Ultralearning can greatly help any student or self-taught learner. Mapping, drilling, retrieval, retention, etc. It can have massive returns when applied. The main drawbacks are the obvious overlap with other meta-learning books, and that this book could have easily been 100 pages shorter, or been a killer Medium article/personal site post.