Scott H Young

From the Web

Here are a few articles I’ve done recently on other websites:

11 Tips for Nuking Laziness Without Becoming a Workaholic
Triple Your Productivity Tomorrow
The Cheapskate’s Guide to Educating Yourself
7 Lesser Known Ways to Increase Productivity

From the Archives

10 Ways to Improve Your Energy - “Although our ability to organize our time is limited to the number of hours in the day, our ultimate potential for improving energy has far fewer physical limitations.”

From the Shelf

Atlas Shrugged - I’m midway through reading Ayn Rand’s epic novel (over 1200 pages). The book is about the virtue of human selfishness and Rand’s unique philosophy on life. I believe many of the themes the book presents are valid, but the novel tends to paint characters in a black and white manner exaggerating the battle in good versus evil.

I’ve received a number of e-mails from fellow students frustrated with the formal education process. Frankly, I agree with them. Universities are expensive, inefficient and often waste time teaching topics that students don’t need to learn. Self-education is a useful alternative, but I’ve found it isn’t always as easy as it should be. Finding where to start the learning process can require a fair bit of searching, and often books try to sell hype rather than teach the fundamentals.

I’d like to collect resources you have for self-education. To qualify I’m looking for products, services and resources that:

• Teach a subject, or facilitate learning (e.g. an online portal that compares different self education products)
• Is free or relatively inexpensive
• Reputable and reliable. (I’m looking for self-education programs that represent the type of subjects you could learn at a school, not get-rich-quick tutorials)

If you know of any good self-education programs, books, portals or resources, I invite you to suggest them to me either in the comments or by e-mailing it to howtochangeahabit@gmail.com.

If I get a large enough volume of suggestions, I’ll try compiling them into a post as a resource for myself and other self-learners.