Scott H Young – Rapid Learner

Scott H Young – Rapid Learner

What is Rapid Learner?

Rapid Learner is a course that teaches you how to quickly and effectively tackle any learning challenge. Whether you’re a student who want better grades with less studying, a professional who wants to quickly master your field, or just someone who wants a system for learning anything quickly and effectively, this course is for you.

Rapid Learner’s new course platform is designed to fully engage you in the learning process. When you join a new session, you begin the course with hundreds of new members who are going through the materials at the same time. However, this means we have limited enrollment periods for the course…
What do you get in Rapid Learner?

1. PROJECT – ENSURE SUCCESS BEFORE YOU START
Learn how to take any learning task—classes, self-education or professional development—and turn it into a learning project. What you’ll learn:

• How to break any learning goal into weekly chunks
• Find the right materials to learn effectively without getting overwhelmed or distracted
• Smooth your schedule to prevent stress and burnout
• How to design projects to learn practical skills
In addition to the main lessons, you’ll also get six bonus lessons, including:
• How I Prepared for the MIT Challenge – A detailed walkthrough of how I was able to set up, and stick to, the intense learning project
• Making Realistic Predictions – Know how to set goals you can confidently complete every time

2. PRODUCTIVITY – GET MORE DONE WITHOUT THE PROCRASTINATION
Build a productivity system that will allow you to get work done without stress, guilt or procrastination. What you’ll learn:

• Why you get burned out, and how to prevent it
• How to improve your energy, so you can get more done in less time
• Recognize different types of procrastination, and the different methods to eliminate it
In addition to the main lessons, you’ll also get six bonus lessons, including:
• Kill Procrastination – Not all procrastination is the same, and neither is the fix. In this lesson, I’ll teach you how to spot different forms of procrastination along with the specific method to kill it
• Make Productivity a Habit – How to go from being productive some of the time, to consistently getting your work done and accomplishing the projects you start

3. PRACTICE – THE MOST EFFECTIVE STUDYING METHOD
Build your foundation right. Learn effectively by applying the techniques a comprehensive study named as the most effective learning methods: What you’ll learn:

• Active versus passive learning, why you want to learn more actively yet few learners do
• How to practice without problems sets or past exams
• What SRS is and when to use it to quickly memorize information
• The most common, inefficient studying strategy that most students use without realizing it
In addition to the main lessons, you’ll also get six bonus lessons, including:
• How Memory Works – Dig into the science of memory and how you can use yours effectively
• Choosing the Right Practice Activity – Be able to analyze the kinds of practice you’re doing and fix possible weaknesses, so you’ll never be caught off-guard in an exam again

4. INSIGHT – UNDERSTAND HARD IDEAS WITH EASE
Expert learners don’t just memorize information—they understand deeply the principles behind what they’re learning. Learn how to quickly build and test intuitions about the material so you’ll “get” it. What you’ll learn:

• The Feynman Technique and how to apply different variations of it to tackle particular learning challenges.
• How to know when you’ve learned something deeply enough
• Diagnose whether you understand something well enough, or simply need to learn the details better
In addition to the main lessons, you’ll also get six bonus lessons, including:
• How to Learn Things You Don’t Understand – A recipe for deconstructing anything you don’t understand
• Mindful Practice – How to approach practice in a way that will improve you intuition about ideas

5. MEMORY – QUICKLY REMEMBER ANYTHING
Not all knowledge is remembered equally. Learn to exploit this fact by representing what you’re trying to learn in a way your brain can more easily relate to and store. What you’ll learn:

• Holistic learning methods to vividly remember and recall important concepts and ideas
• Mnemonic systems to quickly memorize detailed information
• How to visualize ideas to remember and understand them better
• Detailed walkthroughs for applying analogies to sift through and understand ideas
In addition to the main lessons, you’ll also get six bonus lessons, including:
• The Memory Palace – Employ the technique competitive mnemoticists use to memorize thousands numbers, facts and words quickly and accurately
• How to Visualize Abstract Ideas – Learn to see what you’re trying to understand to remember it more easily

6. MASTERY – A LIFELONG STRATEGY TO MAINTAIN AND IMPROVE YOUR KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Learning is only half the battle. To learn well, you also need to retain what you learn. In this module, I’ll teach you how to develop a plan to retain whatever you’ve learned for years with minimal effort. What you’ll learn:

• How to decide whether to master, maintain or relearn whatever you’re learning
• What you should try to remember from a book
• How to quickly relearn forgotten subjects
• How to master knowledge and go from beginner to expert
In addition to the main lessons, you’ll also get six bonus lessons, including:
• The Science of Forgetting – Learn important principles from cognitive science that dictate how you forget things so you can maximize the knowledge you retain
• The Mastery Habit – How to continually get better at whatever you learn

+GRADUATION BONUSES
In addition to the six core modules, all Rapid Learner students also get access to graduation material to further their mastery of the concepts. Graduation material is available once you’ve completed the course checkpoints and you’ve completed payment for the course. This graduation material includes:

HOW TO BECOME A STRAIGHT-A STUDENT – Interview with Cal Newport, author and MIT PhD., about the studying strategies he uncovered researching high-achieving, low-stress students from top-level universities.
DEVELOPING AN INTUITION FOR LEARNING – Interview with Kalid Azad, founder of Better Explained, about how to develop intuitive understandings of abstract subjects like math, finance and computer science.
FLUENT IN 3 MONTHS WITH BENNY LEWIS – Learn the strategies octolingual polyglot Benny Lewis uses to quickly learn new languages.
DOZENS OF LEARN FASTER BOOTCAMP ESSAYS – For years I’ve kept a private archive of some of my best writing and ideas on learning. All Rapid Learner students can get access to dozens of these essays, sharing new tactics and research to help you learn better.