Scott H Young

I’m working on a new writing project, based on some of the ideas I’ve written about in Do the Real Thing, The Hard Way is the Easy Way and the chapter on directness in Ultralearning. The basic idea is that instead of doing the real thing we need to improve, we often get stuck on […]

Review and summary of the key ideas in Cal Newport's latest book, A World Without Email. Recommended reading.

Studying a subject can be tricky, but no subject is harder than learning about ourselves. Here are two paths forward.

In the last lesson, I introduced a simple metaphor for motivation: action always flows downhill. Thanks to the amazing circuitry in our basal ganglia, we take the billions of simultaneously firing neurons in our brain and produce sequential thoughts and actions. Yet the choice of which action to take isn’t always the one our higher […]