After completing a 4-year undergraduate degree at MIT in 1 year and spending 2,000 US dollars, Scott Young tells you how to grow as a top student

I was recently shocked by a learning guru, his name is Scott Young.

First, some basic information about the great master:

Scott Young was born in Canada in 1988.

He has hardly studied after school since high school. Despite this, he graduated second in the class.

When he was in college, he usually studied no more than 2 hours a day, but his average grade was always above A.

After graduating from the University of Manitoba in Canada, he happened to encounter the MIT Open Online Course. In October 2011, he announced on his blog that he would conduct 12 courses At that time, he was not 100% confident that he could complete the MIT course challenge. He studies 10 hours a day every week, takes a day off every Saturday to balance his life, and works every Sunday to maintain expenses.

Then he really spent a year studying at home to complete 33 computer science courses in MIT open courses that normally take four years to complete, saving 1.5 million in college tuition, and Finally passed all the exams and went on the TEDx podium to tell the world about his learning experience.

Scott wrote in his blog:

MIT Challenge, the most ambitious challenge project

Scott’s philosophy is: “learning ?is the key to living well. (Learning is the key to living well.)”. With this mentality, he challenged MIT's computer courses. The difficulty level of this challenge is very high, because you are trying to use one year to complete a course that normally takes four years to complete. Those who can enter MIT are elites, and what they do is more difficult than what elites have to do. things.

For nearly a year from October 1, 2011 to September 26, 2012, Scott studied MIT's computer science course full-time. In the first few months, he studied six days a week, spending an average of about 60 hours a week on challenging MIT computer courses. Later, as my efficiency gradually improved and I passed some courses and exams, I reduced the time I spent studying to 30 to 40 hours per week.

When Scott completed MIT's computer course in one year, he did not get a degree from MIT because he neither registered at MIT nor had any other substantial connections with MIT. connect. Scott was not surprised that he did not get a degree, because the goal he set for himself at the time was to pass the MIT exam.

Compared with qualification certification, what is more valuable is the mastery and acquisition of knowledge itself. Compared with many people who study for qualification certification, Scott's motivation to study for knowledge itself is more pure and inspiring.

During the challenge, TED? Eastside Prep invited him to give a speech at TEDx titled "Can You Complete an MIT Education for $2,000?" It was also because of this speech that Scott won the more attention. Sure enough, knowledge is money, and strong learning ability can help you make money.

Four foreign languages ??a year, conveying language learning methodology

In addition to studying, Scott also likes to travel, learn foreign languages, and better "get more from life". Complete the MIT challenge After that, he spent another year without speaking English, traveling to four countries and learning four different languages, namely Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin and Korean. Among these four languages, he feels that Spanish is his best and Korean is his worst.

It only took him 3 months to learn each language. After the four-country trip, he also summarized to everyone a set of methodology that everyone can learn any language:

One month of self-portrait practice, and you’re done

Then he started to challenge the self-portrait . He studied self-portrait 5 days a week, 5 hours a day for a month, a total of 100 hours, and got the results he wanted after 30 days.

This great passion for life "Get more from Life" prompted him to constantly try unknown areas of life and learn new skills.

If you have logged into his personal blog, you will find that the entire blog has no ads. It is reported that the traffic ranking of his blog is currently 56,786th in the world. As a personal blog, this traffic data is not low. of. But he never thought about making money through advertising. Instead, he sold his professional information products and knowledge services to obtain labor remuneration.

After he completed the MIT challenge, a man from Microsoft wanted to talk to him.

However, Scott was not interested in talking about it at all, because he felt that the income from managing his blog full-time could sustain all his expenses, and he was very happy doing so now, and he did not want to go to other companies.

Learn to say "no" in order to leave "yes" to those things that really interest you. Many times, we will be caught up in temporary gains and losses, and then make choices that we regret. Keep the original intention in order to go further and be happier.

Scott’s story illustrates: It is a happy thing for a person to do what he likes and do what he likes well. Rather than what you want in life, what is more important is how much you can sacrifice to achieve your goals.

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