Uploaded December 2019 | Updated September 2026, 56 minutes ago

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Scott Young (@ScottHYoung) is a blogger, traveler, author, self-experimenter and ultra-learner that took MIT's entire 4-year programming curriculum in a year. He's the author of Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career and runs a podcast looking at career advice, learning, growth, productivity, philosophy and more.

Full episode: https://disruptors.fm/153-ultralearning-to-complete-mits-4-year-cs-degree-in-12-months-and-future-of-learning-creativity-and-purpose-scott-young

In today's episode we discuss:

- How Scott completed a 4-year MIT programming degree in 12 months
- Secrets to learning smarter, and faster
- The reasons MOOCs failed, and didn't
- Ways to redesign education for the 21st century
- How to deal with filter bubbles and bias
- Scott's thoughts on productivity, purpose and results
- Lessons learned from travel
- Why Scott's not convinced about biohacking and brain augmentation
- Was Harvard right in their racial discrimination
- How to increase your comfort zone and creativity
- What Scott's learned about happiness and internal reflection
- Where should someone today focus their efforts
- Why software is eating the world

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