Scott H Young
Writer on learning and skill acquisition; author of Ultralearning and Get Better at Anything, known for the MIT Challenge and the Year Without English.
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Beginning to Read Liked
Marilyn Jager Adams's extensive review of the literature concluded essentially the same thing in 1994.
scotthyoung.com 2023-12-19
Social Learning Theory Loved
Social Learning Theory is a difficult book to summarize, but it has profoundly impacted my thinking.
scotthyoung.com 2023-12-19
The Republic Loved
To my surprise, I really enjoyed The Republic. It is both well-written and weird, which puts it above many other famous philosophical books that are too obscure to be easily read.
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The Science of Learning Physics Liked
Mestre and Docktor tackle this challenge by reviewing the large body of literature on learning physics. I plan on writing a full review of their book, which I found to be a helpful summary.
scotthyoung.com 2023-12-19
How Languages are Learned Liked
To that end, I read a few different books from the field of second language acquisition (SLA) over the summer, and even wrote a review of How Languages are Learned.
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Cognitive Behavior Therapy Liked
I recently reviewed Beck's book, which is written as a practical guide for therapists implementing CBT.
scotthyoung.com 2023-12-19
Creativity in Science Liked
This book surveys theories of creativity, contrasting four competing explanations: expertise, genius, society, and chance, in offering a model for how creativity works. Simonton's work provides a nice hybrid between the purely anecdotal work of biographers and the data-driven work of experimental scientists.
scotthyoung.com 2023-12-19
How We Reason Liked
I had read Johnson-Laird's original work, Mental Models, last year. It was nice to see an in-depth follow-up on how the theory has developed in the subsequent two decades.
scotthyoung.com 2023-12-19
Psych Loved
Despite having read a few bookshelves worth of academic psychology texts, I enjoyed Yale professor Paul Bloom's survey of the field. Because understanding psychology cannot be divorced from understanding its history, I enjoyed Bloom's birds-eye view of the field from the past to the present day.
scotthyoung.com 2023-12-19
Why Knowledge Matters Liked
In this 2016 book, Hirsch presents a sweeping curriculum change in French schools as evidence that misguided educational theories are undermining our children's learning.
scotthyoung.com 2023-12-19