{"id":517,"date":"2011-01-14T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T18:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scotthyoung.com\/members\/?p=517"},"modified":"2011-01-14T10:00:59","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T18:00:59","slug":"ass-kicking-email-great-free-resources-for-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/members\/?p=517","title":{"rendered":"Ass-Kicking Email – Great Free Resources for Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey,<\/p>\n

In this email:<\/p>\n

1. Completely free online resources to help you in any subject.
\n2. Quick tip to help you stay productive during stressed times.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

There are a ton of online resources to help you learn better. I
\ncan only go over a few of them in this email, but I wanted to share
\nwith you some of my favorites:<\/p>\n

1. Open Course Ware at MIT<\/p>\n

Here you can download course materials from hundreds of MIT courses,
\nthere are even videos, sample problems and answers and lecture
\nnotes for many of them.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/ocw.mit.edu\/index.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

2. Stanford University’s YouTube Channel<\/p>\n

More limited than MIT’s, there are still some great videos here,
\nespecially if you are an engineering or computer science major.
\nI went through the entire Programming Paradigm course myself and
\nwas very impressed with the quality and depth of instruction.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/StanfordUniversity<\/a><\/p>\n

3. Khan Academy<\/p>\n

Thousands of videos covering mathematics, finance, history, physics
\nand many other subjects. Short explanations of some of the tricky
\nideas. Chances are whatever you’re “stuck” on might be found here.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.khanacademy.org\/
\n<\/a>
\n4. Better Explained<\/p>\n

I’ve already made reference to Kalid’s excellent website before in
\nthese emails, but he deserves mention again. Difficult math and
\ncomputing concepts are given much better explanations than your
\ntypical textbook.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/betterexplained.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

5. LingQ<\/p>\n

Switching from math to languages, LingQ is one of my favorite online
\nresources for learning languages. It’s system allows you to listen
\nto audio, read the transcript and translate words all within one
\ninterface. It was helpful for me early on in my French.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.lingq.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Have any of your favorites that I haven’t mentioned? Reply to
\nthis email with them and I can share them with the rest of the
\ngroup!<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Productivity During Stress: Make Your Time Top-Heavy<\/p>\n

Top heaviness is a skill I’ve used to make it when I haven’t had a
\ngreat deal of time. When something is top heavy it means that the
\namount of mass isn’t spread evenly, there is more at the beginning
\nthan at the end.<\/p>\n

A joke with a 20 minute build-up and 1 sentence punch-line is top
\nheavy.<\/p>\n

A schedule that does 15 tasks Monday and 3 on Friday is top-heavy.<\/p>\n

I’ve found that the busier I am, the more useful being top-heavy
\nbecomes. That means I take my exhaustively long weekly goals list
\nand make the first few days of the week very demanding to keep up.<\/p>\n

I also usually tightly monitor my routine those days, so I’ll wake
\nup early, eat meals quickly and miss the evening festivities on the
\nfirst few days.<\/p>\n

The beauty of this system is that because you aren’t adding more
\nto your weekly goals list, it results in easier days of work
\nbefore you’re about to burn out.<\/p>\n

My experience has been the opposite tactic, trying to evenly spread
\nthe work over all 7 days, has disastrous results. I tend to
\nprocrastinate more on the early days (because there is no end in
\nsight) and then I have a bottom-heavy schedule which requires a
\nlot of agony to get through.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

That’s all for this week, I’ll see you in the forums!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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