Ultralearning by Scott H. Young https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/ultralearning/ > Combining stories of dramatic ultralearning feats with the detailed science on how to learn anything effectively, ULTRALEARNING will transform how you work, live and learn. It made me realise that for most of my life, the things I was doing to try and learn new skills, techniques or technologies was actually more akin to entertainment t…
Would this be useful to someone that's not neurotypical?
It spells out a framework that (roughly) boils down to:
0) Pick one topic at a time
1) Learning by doing
2) The doing has to be exercises of deliberate practice that push you
3) Create some type of deadline or pressure to make sure you actually stick to the task.
My experience with being self-taught is that I tend to just bounce around arbitrarily to different subjects or interests and drop them when I get bored and then all that knowledge bouncing around eventually becomes cohesive once I repeat that cycle enough times. So the concepts of picking a single topic, creating a strategy for only focusing on that topic, and then executing were difficult to apply.