Ultralearning

 As promised, here's a review of Ulralearning

This is a must-read for anyone embarking on any type of study. Like so many things I have encountered since, this would have given me a serious boost for my undergraduate studies.

It contains many interesting, anecdotal examples of Ultralearning being used to great advantage, not least by the author who, as well as self teaching a full MIT course  (4 years worth in just 12 months), he ultralearned several languages.

I was intrigued by this book, and how I might use this method in my neurorehabilitation, so I added the following to my reading list: the following. As soon as I'm happy with what neurology has to say about it I will eagerly take on my own "Ultralearning project" (as such activities are referred to in the book). The final chapter is a step by step guide to help the reader with his or her first, such project.

This is a real eye opener. If, like me, you regularly fantasise about traveling back in time, armed with knowledge from the future; this will improve that advantage.

I have kept up the intensity of my training; and I am sufficiently confident, or deluded, to predict that I will be walking independently with the cane at next year's Weihnachtsmarkt.

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