Project: [Ultralearning]
Status: In Progress
Start: 2025-06-01
Deadline: Open-ended
Tags: #knowledge #study
🎯 Objective
Assimilate and apply the Ultralearning method to learn hard things faster and enjoy deep satisfaction via self directed learning.
🧠 Why It Matters (aka Existential Justification)
- I have been a self-directed learner for mostly all my life, and this only enhances that.
- I love autonomy, and this gives me the upperhand to get more autonomy, by doing/learning the thing better.
- This way, I can actually become a polymath in the modern sense.
- I will be able to apply my knowledge to good use.
- I enjoy deep work.
✅ Success Criteria
See Project Math Machine for what to do. It’s like the parent project for this one.
- Finish listening/reading to Ultralearning
- Make a video on Ultralearning
- Metalearning things
- Apply tools like drilling and testing in physics-chemistry-math.
- Be more direct and use project-based learning for programming.
- Do things one at a time.
🛠️ Tools + System
- Notes on Ultralearning (obsidian)
- Anki to remember the lessons
- Making it visible (in my blog, etc.)
- Creating something with the knowledge
- e.g. explaining a physics concept in streams.
📆 Timeline / Phases
Break into chunks so it doesn’t feel like eating an elephant raw:
- Phase 1: Reading and understanding what Ultralearning is.
- Phase 2: Apply isolated principles in specific activities (phy/chem, math, programming).
- Phase 3: Combine multiple principles into the activities.
- Phase 4: Make it a second nature.
📈 Progress Log
| Date | What I Did |
|---|---|
| 2025-05-26 | Started reading Ultralearning, resonated with it a lot |
| 2025-05-28 | Used metalearning to prep for my IP Speedrun. |
| 2025-05-29 | The IP Speedrun in 2 days |
💥 Wins
- The IP Speedrun was a very nice Ultralearning project. Though it was a bit rough, we’re off to a good start.
📓 Reflections
Once you’re done (or halfway through), write:
- What you learned
- What sucked
- What worked
- What you’d improve