Scott H Young

Why is math hard, but video games fun? I explore new research pointing to an answer that has surprising implications for your goals.

Flashcards, especially in their digital incarnations, are some of the most powerful learning tools. They can also easily be a complete waste of time. Powerful, because retrieval and spacing are key to memory. If you want to learn a topic with a lot of stuff to memorize, flashcards will help you do it better than […]

My experiences after ditching social media for several months. Here's what I miss and what I really, really don't.

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 […]