The Dad Mindset Show
Scott H Young on leveraging ultralearning techniques as a busy parent
Episode notes
Scott shares:
- Being intentional with spending your time
- Being flexible to fit things in
- Synergise learning with other things like work projects or recreation (a way to see friends or exercise)
- Having good boundaries between work and home
We often don’t look carefully at what actually matters and how we’re prioritising our time - When you are at the productivity frontier, being deliberate with your time is so important
- Social media fast
- The way our brains were hardwired and how that doesn’t lend itself for the current environment
- Why life seems so busy at the moment
- We have so many expectations today that we never used to have
- Productivity guilt - you simply can’t do everything
- Savana brains are not designed for TikTok
- Curating your attentional garden
- Things needing to be in middle of the Venn diagram of life in order for it to get done when you’re a parent
- Breaking down the things that we want to get good at because there isn’t as much transfer of skills as people expect
- Absolute ranking in education as opposed to moving you forward
- You never start at the same level of competency
- Starting at the bottom of the class vs the top
- How the processes of learning can be broken down
- How do you create an environment that is not too awful
- How can you make learning interesting and fun.
- There is a rational process that you can learn, there’s just a lot of work
- Next-level fatigue
- Sorting out your own issues so you can show up better for your kids
- How we’re living in the best possible time to be learning
- The Flynn Effect
- Getting over the difficulty threshold of a new skill so that you now enjoy it.