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Josh Waitskin is a modern-day polymath. He is an eight-time national chess champion, a two-time world champion in Tai Chi Chuan Push Hands, the first Brazillian Jiu-Jitsu black belt, and author of The Art of Learning.
Drawing from Joshโs experiences in chess and martial arts, this podcast discusses:
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To be elite, you have to express who you are through your art. You will work best when your relationship to your pursuit remains in harmony with your disposition.
There will be times when you need to try new ideas and take in further information, but itโs essential to integrate this information in a way that does not violate who you are.
When you feel obstructed, youโre trying to fit into a mould that doesnโt suit you.ย
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Most people want to avoid pain and discomfort, which makes them mediocre. However, you will have pain when you live at your stretch point. It can be physical or mental resistance.ย
When you aim for mastery, you must learn to embrace the pain and engage fully. Craving the pain and discomfort will help you to grow and excel. Setbacks will give you the resilience to succeed.
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When you learn a technique, youโre learning one thing, when youโre learning a principle that embodies a technique, you might be learning a thousand things.
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Lateral thinking - the ability to take a lesson from one thing and apply it to something else is the most important discipline anyone can cultivate. The goal in learning is unobstructed self-expression.
The person teaching you is the person who knows you best, and that is you 20 years from now. So itโs helpful to visualise that person to understand your false constructs.
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When you are learning new skills, most people go wide before going deep. However, it is better to prioritise depth before breadth. Delve into the details to understand what makes the macro work. Learning too wide is distracting, while focusing on depth helps you develop a feel for quality.
If you have a few skills to learn, it's more effective to plunge deeply into one skill. That deep state of learning is necessary for the brain to remap effectively.
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โ[Quality] Itโs such a beautiful, incredible principle. Most people think they can wait around for the big moments to turn it on. But if you donโt cultivate turning it on as a way of life in the little moments โ and there are hundreds of more times little moments than big โ then thereโs no chance in the big moments.โ
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Quality is a process and an outcome. It's the process of learning to do or learn something exceptionally well. But it is the result that we enjoy.
One should first master the fundamentals, which involves hours and hours of mindful practice:
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There are four stages of learning
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Train to be at peace in chaos. Because we โdonโt want to be meditating in a flower garden. We want to be able to meditate and have a meditative state throughout our lives โ in a hurricane, in a thunderstorm, when sharks are attacking you โ any moment.โ
Steps to learn how to be a resilient performer.
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Recovery periods are as important as pushing yourself. Those whoย create periods of inactivity between pushing themselves are the ones that perform the best.
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