Scott H. Young
Canadian writer on learning who taught himself MIT's computer-science curriculum in a year, then spent the following year travelling through Spain, Brazil, China and Korea trying not to speak English. Author of Ultralearning.
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Believed beforeby their own account
Their words, looking backIf you had asked me this question in the lead up to my 2019 book, Ultralearning, I would have said no. I was a strong advocate for doing hard problem solving and the associated mental effort it requires as a way to learn difficult skills.
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Our readingNo longer believes this.
Their wordsGetting help, whether it’s in the form of a worked example, a completion problem or just a hint to get you unstuck, can be faster for learning than floundering.
- 12 years earlier
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Believed beforeby their own account
Their words, looking backWhen Vat and I initially made plans, neither of us were confident that it would be possible to reach a conversational level in any of the languages.
Nowsaid
Our readingNo longer believes this.
Their wordsThe fact that I can confidently say I reached a conversational level in Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese, and a near-conversational level for Korean is far above what I originally thought was possible.
↗Looking Back at a Year (Almost) Without Englishscotthyoung.com