And it’s amazing! Hey Brandon, what’s going on? But really, you don’t. Scott Young: So, there’s two purposes to drills. So, if we go back to the actual building of the ultralearning plan, we have the scope, “I’m going to dial down a bit more and make that more focused,” but then you also sort of talk about, in the book, to identify core concepts, facts and procedures—which I’m not going to go into here because there’s a lot of other things I’d rather dive into, but you go into in detail in the book. Send Message. And when you do that—and some of those are big changes. So, is there a balance there? Scott Young: Yeah, this project, I was not only interested in learning computer science, but the initiation of this idea come about because I had met a guy that I mentioned just a bit earlier in the podcast, Benny Lewis. Nov 10 – Second day of Mixing/Mastering course was just as good as the first and I’m definitely happy I did it. So, when I did that portrait drawing challenge, for instance, I made a rule that I was going to spend—it was going to be a pseudo-full time project, but it was going to be 25 hours a week. Update: The Ultralearning Experiment has finished and it was a huge success so click here to skip down to the Results section! And so, that’s exactly what I’m doing. Money Of Budgets Are Sexy On Should I Rent Or Buy A Home and 1,442 more episodes by Optimal Finance Daily, free! And the kind of little twist of this is that I wanted to try to do it in 12 months. I also plan on using YouTube and other online resources to pick up recording/mixing skills, as needed. This is what I was hoping for! There’s no doubt about that. And after about two weeks of doing this, I started to stall. Mad Fientist. and make as many songs with those tools as possible (plan to take sound design out of my list of tasks for month three so that I can focus on the songwriting). My goal is not just to speak a few words of a language, but to become fluent. So as you learn more vocabulary, maybe you don’t have to translate those things. Amazing the difference it makes cutting all that nonsense out. Could you just tell my listeners what that was all about? Aug 23 – Finished pre-mix and sent away for mixing! EEEKK!!! Join over 100,000 others on the Mad Fientist email list and get instant access to my FI Spreadsheet! So, someeon’s going to say, “Well, I spent 10 years doing this” or “I was in art school for 15 years” or whatever. From what I understood, you pick a certain (shortish) time frame and define a learning project and learn it in the best possible way (for you). Buy it for charity. Join the Mad Fientist as he interviews personal-finance icons like Mr. Money Mustache and Vicki Robin to discover the strategies they used to achieve financial independence and retire early! So, to go to your point about confidence, this was something that I thought was very interesting with approaching things in this ultralearning way. So, if you learn a word just by using flashcards, you are going to be somewhat less effective in using it in conversations than if you would learn the word in conversations. We knew that this was the approach that worked. Mad Fientist. I’m going to do this in a different project,” or you can emphasize some parts that you really want to focus on that maybe get sort of a short shrift in the current curriculum. Mad Fientist: That’s great. Success! Sep 26 – After doing a lot of work on the cover song, I’ve got things sounding really good again so happy to learn I had the skills to fix the issues I heard and excited to get the song mastered next week. \"the very lonely one\" or \"the one set apart\" in Hawaiian language). I uploaded the cover song to DistroKid so I’m excited for that to be processed so that I can take down the old version. Read more →. So, head over to MadFientist.com/experiments. I’m going to do a very specific genre of song.”. This is very halting, and it’s a little artificial because, obviously, you don’t want to be talking to Google Translate. 1440: Things To Know Before Lending and Borrowing Money From Loved Ones by Kumiko of The Budget Mom. But what it means is that, without a connection to the real world, often, people who learn something in a purely academic setting or purely in a classroom setting are unable to make fairly trivial transfers of that knowledge to a situation that we actually care about. 288 | Mad Fientist from ChooseFI on Podchaser, aired Monday, 18th January 2021. Website. So, it’s somewhat of a different skill. And even though everything else in my life, I feel like, if I work hard enough, I can do it and accomplish it, it’s this other side of things that I feel like, “Oh, maybe I just don’t have what it takes to be creative or be an artist” or whatever. But it doesn’t mean that you need to be careful if the only way you’re learning to speak is through flashcards. I have so much more confidence to just try stuff. Scott Young: Yeah. Need to remember that I usually hate everything when I’m working on it but then I listen the next day and it’s actually good (just like Mad Fientist writing). Mad Fientist: Alright, okay. I finally talked to the person who introduced me to the idea of financial independence - Jacob Lund Fisker from Early Retirement Extreme! We’re hoping that they’re going to learn something that they can apply off of the test. So, it’s like I can dedicate three months to maybe trying out my own ultralearning project. And I think it’s related to what you’re trying to do here with music, is that for a lot of people who perhaps don’t have a lot of confidence—so if you’re approaching something that you’re trying to learn, and you feel like you’re not very good at it right now—that’s okay. Success! And you can go there and check out the new ultralearning experiment that just launched today as well as some old ones like the guinea pig experiment and the mortgage payoff experiment and things like that. The Mad Fientist (aka Brandon Ganch) saved his money and left a career as a computer programmer in his early 30s to pursue a life of early retirement.Along the way on his blog and podcast, he shared the spreadsheets, techniques, and insights that allowed him to achieve financial independence sooner in life.. We were converted. So, when we have students in a classroom, we don’t really care about how they do on a test. It’s really something you have to learn through practice. Unsubscribe at any time. We have so many examples of people dredging through school, but so few examples of people getting really good at things on their own that they care about. So, if we’re talking about learning a language, for instance, a very good sort of starting goal is having your first conversation with the aid of Google Translate and a dictionary. And before that, maybe releasing an EP or a single or things like that. I have blocked off all of September, October, and November of 2019 for this project and since I don’t have a full-time job or any other obligations, I should be able to devote a lot of time over those months to this. However, I limited it to—wlel, first of all, I’m only going to do it with graphite pencil (and a little bit of chalk, but graphite pencil basically). Join the Mad Fientist as he interviews personal-finance icons like Mr. Money Mustache and Vicki Robin to discover the strategies they used to achieve financial independence and retire early! Learn about investing, tax avoidance, entrepreneurship, travel hacking, real estate, and all things related… And I decided to write like a synth-y version of one of their songs… which ended up teaching me so much about music production, songwriting, building energy, all these sorts of things that are really important. And you need to kind of be sensitive to those plateaus to be like, “Hmm… maybe I need to go back and look at some other methods, look at some other techniques, maybe have some different drills, what-have-you, to try to get back up on that steeper part of the learning curve.”. I love it.” But it allowed me to sort of build those skills without having that dread of sitting in front of a synthesizer and being like, “Okay, I have to create something from nothing.” And then, all this stuff after it of like, “Well, is this really good? Page Transparency See More. It’s only dinner time and yet I’ve already exceeded my 5-hour target and I’m still going. but I can learn the difference between a wrench and plier. And so this was actually when I was doing my business school undergrad. And so, similarly, meeting Benny Lewis, really caused me to reflect. But also, there’s specificity in how you use it. Last year, he conducted an experiment in ultralearning that culminated in producing enough music that he released an album. Business & Economy Website. I’ve seen a few writers make a conscious decision to withdraw from public life after a while (LackingAmbition.com and Livingafi.com come to mind). Join over 100,000 others on the Mad Fientist email list and get a PDF packed with all the best advice I've received on the Financial Independence Podcast! Oct 24 – I sat down this morning to recreate another of my favorite songs but my internet was down for some reason so I couldn’t listen to the song. And all of that started to get overwhelming. First single is ready for release! You just see all the things that you can’t do or that you’re not adequate about, and it just feels impossible. Mad Fientist: All those stories that you mentioned and you detail in the book which just help bring the concepts to life, but you’re sort of selling yourself short as well because you’ve used these principles yourself in pretty impressive ways. You have one particular problem. So, I think there’s a lot of really interesting ideas here about how you can get better at things that you care about. Follow the latest and greatest galleries, videos, and art-making tutorials to help you learn more. Arranged whole song and it’s complete (can’t believe it)! Really disheartened because I felt like I was close to the finish line for this song but now I feel miles away again. And so, maybe sticking to those structures—most songs are structured the same. So, do you think an ultralearning project would be ideal for that sort of…? Really exciting!! May 21 – Shared a new original song (G) with Jill. This project has definitely forced me to put a lot more time in and I can see that I’m progressing faster because I’m working at it more. Oct 31 – Used vocoder for vocal parts (allows me to tweak melodies and not get sick of hearing voice). About See All. One of my questions was going to be like, “How do I balance these things?” So, obviously, there’s going to be the direct practice, and then eventually my willpower, I’m just going to get fed up or something, and then I won’t be able to do that anymore. So maybe your pronunciation is just not correct, and this is causing a lot of problems. Scott Young: Oh, yeah. It finally feels like I can actually do this! On today’s episode of the Financial Independence Podcast, I’m excited to introduce Scott Young!. You don’t get that improvement process. And then, they start doing it, and they find it really frustrating. And more importantly, as you said, it looks like you’re so comfortable with it that your learning is surely going to increase at a higher rate than it would be if you’re still not confident and doing the normal thing that everybody else does. My ultimate goal is to release a 10-song album that I’ve written and produced myself (this goal can be broken down into smaller goals of releasing a 7-song album, 4-song EP, or 1-song single). And then, as you start building them out, you start to become a bit more confident, a bit more flexible. I’m not going to do it in real-time just because I don’t want to have to juggle two things of like publishing on MadFientist.com at the same time I’m doing this. So, this is your first attempt at this ultralearning idea. Is that I can’t perform a particular skill?” These are all sorts of feelings that you kind of start to develop as you go through these projects. Writing, recording, and releasing music is something I hope to do for the rest of my life, so this is not something that I plan to stop once the ultralearning project finishes or I release my first album. But then you also have to drill on the things that you’re not as competent in. And so, what I did then is it was like, “Okay, let’s do some more research to figure out what other techniques exist for drawing portraits.” And it happened to be that I found this course taught by a place called Vitruvian Studios. And then, as far as time is concerned, do you think five hours per day, five days a week, is a good way to do it? Jul 15 – Excited to get started on the next song. But for me, that wasn’t an option. But since I’ve limited my scope to this, to only synthesizer/electronic music, then that’s one whole thing that I can just exclude completely and not worry about. and am using my brain to come up with what I should do but when I watched him mixing my track, he just used his ears and tweaked things until they sounded great. Zero spam. Oct 21 – Confidence still isn’t there so I’m still spending most of my time deconstructing my favorite songs. But most of the things that make this work is having that self-awareness, having what is called in the psychological industry metacognition, of basically just being aware of what your problem is. How do you bootstrap yourself to the next level, and then the next level, and then the next level? That was how long I wanted to spend. And it can progress from there. is that the purpose of drills? Spend five hours per day, five days a week on the project. I did a business school education before that that I took the normal pace and I spent tuition. I was going to spend more than that. Houndour Umbreon Skitty Alolan Meowth; The user intimidates the opponent, then attacks it when it flinches. But learning to handwrite characters should really only be done once you are already comfortable reading and writing with a keyboard. But I just released a post recently talking about the fact that one of my biggest ambitions in life is to just write and record and release music. My first love was music tech as a teenager and am planning on getting back into it when I leave my job early next year. But when you have all the time in the world, sometimes, you don’t focus as hard as when you only have five hours. So yeah, maybe this is a good way to talk about drills. There’s the skill of producing this sentence, producing this word, pronouncing these phonemes. Good news is, I came home and started making my own adjustments, using my ears, and started moving things back in the right direction. I mean, you’re learning from one or the other. Sep 30 – Didn’t hit my 5 hours per day for 5 days a week but exceeded 4 hours per day so not too far off. Going to adjust my plan for month two to focus more on the specific goal of creating a single, uptempo song. And then, you can use this as a bootstrapping process. Jul 4 – Made a big breakthrough on BC chorus! So, if you have no idea what I’m talking about, and you haven’t checked out my latest post yet, I suggest you do that first because this episode will make a lot more sense. And then, you can in Photoshop (I was using a different software), you just lower the transparency of the photo to about 50%, and you put it on top of the drawing you had. But I think it’s very important to realize that the ultralearning process I’m trying to describe is not something that’s “Here’s eight tactics, and you just apply these rigorously.” It’s a very organic thing that you have all these different tools, all these different ways to solve problems, but it’s sort of up to you to kind of look at what you’re doing and be like, “Hmmm… this is where I’m getting stuck.”. Nov 28 – Tried to sit down and write lyrics for AS but I underestimated how hard that was going to be. The original song (AS) sounded great on the studio speakers and so did the Sonic Youth cover (TE) so really encouraging! And so, one thing that could be helpful here is thinking about how are you going to put constraints on the albums you want to create, the music you want to create, in that three-month period of time, so that you can get really good at the things that are within those constraints. Finished Sonic Youth remix and shared with Brian. And it’s not extremely motivating. Started working on a cover song but came up with something interesting and unique so decided to scrap the cover and write an original instead. There’s also an audible version. So, I think as you get better in skills, the amount of time you spend doing drills changes. Log In. Scared! They’re going to say, “You know what? Sep 17 – The production lesson today was incredibly helpful! Keep up the good work! But I think if we structure it in a way that, you know, I’m coming up with my own plan, then yeah, that could be potentially more useful to people out there just to see what a real ultralearning project could look like. This has actually been very beneficial because I’m adding some new tools to my toolbox and I’m understanding how simple and similar some of my favorite songs actually are. So, maybe for this three-month project, I have to stick to that. this one popped in at just the right time. But I think the more you can recognize, “Okay, I’m going to be doing this cover songs right now. Well, I’m going to be fluent in three months. If you guys want to learn how to trade options on crude oil futures (assuming you haven’t nailed it down already! I can do this! First, reading about his experience was fascinating (it’s a podcast so you can listen or read the transcript) but you can now buy his album. So, I’ll use an example of a project that I did which was short in timeframe. And so, in this way as well, if I were to start with music production because I have no ability here, I definitely wouldn’t be just like, “Well, I’m just going to make a new song,” and I don’t know anything. I first came across Scott many years ago actually. I became obsessed with it and it took over my week (I even worked more than eleven hours on it one day)! Although YouTube is passive learning, and I’m trying to do less of that, it’s still useful because I do pick up some great ideas every once in a while. Then I would drill melody writing in this certain scenario. You can listen to the full recap podcast episode here and you can check out the single/album that resulted from the experiment here! I have no responsibilities really… which is great. And it’s been great. And I would add as well, you can also change your constraints to your content based on feedback as well. And I could use those in another song. It’s because people are used to hearing it, and that’s what people like to hear.” So, just sticking to that structure, you may feel like you need to do something really unique. The goal for this project is to just accelerate down the path I’m already on. And so, that was my scope for that project. So this is I think the right way to think about it. Can’t believe it! So, if I say, right now, I’m imagining that you don’t speak Hungarian right now, but if I said, “Okay, go out to this person, just deliver this lecture in Hungarian” because you want to be a University lecturer in Budapest, that’s not necessarily very useful advice because how the heck do you do that if you don’t know any Hungarian. As you know, I’m attempting to tackle a very intimidating project myself so what better way to kick off that effort than with my own 3-month ultralearning project! Really great to hear :). Read more → The post Early Retirement Extreme – A Systems Approach to Lifestyle Design appeared first on Mad Fientist. How did the rest of the ultra learning project go? And I’m going to emphasize,” let’s say, “having conversations which may be are not that prevalent in the class or program that I’m in.”. I feel that, in the beginning, you’re doing something like drills maybe because the direct practice situation is just too hard. Definitely feels like I may have just leveled up!!! We’ve been talking a lot about tactics. Whereas a lot of people would just read book after book after book, and then they start going in there like, “Why can’t I remember anything? Scott Young: Okay, so this is actually a really good question because, obviously, when you say, “Okay, just go out and do things in the real world,” the challenge with many learning activities is that you’re not good enough to do them in the real world. Scott Young: Yeah, so ultralearning, I know this is not going to be a familiar term for many people who are listening right now. You develop it a little bit better. Facebook is showing information to help you better understand the purpose of a Page. They come from realizing your potential and overcoming your own limiting beliefs about yourself.” And I really couldn’t agree more with that quote. So, if we’re talking about a language, for instance, one of the big things that is a very common feeling you’ll notice is, “Oh, wow! Email Address. released my first single and started accepting pre-orders for my album, Syntorial – Synthesizer software that helps you become better at sound design, Audible Genius – Software that teaches skills useful for music creation, Complete unheard songs by favorite artists (e.g. Scott Young: Oh, absolutely. Forgot account? Not Now. So, this contrast with how we often learn things in an academic setting where, first of all, there are huge swaths of the skill that you just never practice. But I would say that playing with constraints is very important. Oct 1 – Had my final production lesson today so I got to watch him master the cover song I’ve been working on (TE). Website .
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