"Get Better at Anything" - A conversation with Scott H. Young

[@timothykenny]

The collab we’ve all been waiting for!

[@Paul-tu7hj]

Two of my favorite content creators together!

[@lol987-fr]

damn bro came back after a long time and dropped a banger

[@flecko5]

"We stand on the shoulders of giants." My main takeaway from Scott's book was that explicitly teaching something works better than expecting a student to figure it out for themselves. It might seem obvious but it was a huge discovery for me.

[@MikeFazedMuch]

Good interview. I thought the audio was fine.

[@zem5467]

🐐 Two 🐐 goats 🐐 having 🐐 a 🐐 discussion 🐐"Baaah " 🐐" "

[@Umarepistemix]

My two mentor... Young and keep.

[@solivagant1170]

Great video… Joined your community as well, let’s go on to make 2025 an even better year.

[@herdumptrucks]

After this you, Scott Young and Justin Sung should do another one of these vids to complete the trilogy.

[@beebee-ou7rp]

yes!!

[@werem369]

Benjamin i think you need good treening in terms of sound ;-)

[@blitzer658]

I love Scott's work but ultimately I found his book disappointing, not because he's a bad writer or he presents bad ideas, far from it, but I think in general the underlying message that can be inferred form the whole body of learning sciences and neuroscience or any adjacent topic is "well, we're not sure how any of this works, and there seems to be outliers that trump everyone else but maybe these techniques might maybe work for you idk" and as a student who disparately wants to improve to expand his capacity for learning and effectiveness this message feels underwhelming. (and of course it's not Scott's fault he's just consolidating the findings) will I ever be able to compete with my objectively high iq peers or will they forever leave me in the dust behind as they beat me across all dimensions. "For those who have everything, more will be given , for those who have nothing, everything will be taken away" until we find the great equalizer of IQ I will continue to indulge in learning science. Thank you Benjamin, great video!

[@avimir8805]

"will I ever be able to compete with my objectively high iq peers" No? Aren't they progressing too? For what exact reason do you think that their abilities are fixed (or, provided that they have higher IQ than you in prior, why should their pace of progression be slower than yours)?

[@CaptainWumbo]

I think perhaps it's not that we don't know things work and which things generally work poorly but that there's a lot of variables that make different things appropriate in particular circumstances which are hard to fully scientifically study. When there are profit incentives involved as in KZbin people will tend to overpromise and exaggerate the possible results you can get. If you spend a lot of time seeing and hearing those promises, you will be callibrated to be underwhelmed when sincere grounded advice is given. It's probably a slight fallacy to believe other people are just much smarter than you. There are many factors going into any individual's learning outcomes and it sounds like a barrier to yours might be anxiety over success and too much looking for better methods and not enough applying what you know works well. You may also be tired or distracted by other things. Through my life I have had varied outcomes to learning endeavors depending a lot of my circumstances and well being, from exceling to struggling to not trying to trying in spite of living through hell. In my experience the biggest factors are not really specific techniques, most people gravitate toward reasonably effective techniques unless they are really taking a study hack/guru for gospel.

[@tisaname8490]

Goddamn...

[@JohnVKaravitis]

Cliffs Notes, please.