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Joshua Waitzkin

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Chess Player

Joshua Waitzkin is a renowned chess player, born on December 4, 1976. He has achieved significant success in the chess world and is hailed as a prodigy. Waitzkin has won numerous chess competitions and his story has been widely reported, inspiring many books and movies.

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“Initially I was very drawn to the Tao Te Ching, the Taoist philosophy. It was helping me deal with the balance of these external and internal issues with my chess life. Tai chi is the martial embodiment of Taoist philosophy. Initially, I had no intention of competing in the martial arts; it was just the meditation.”

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“Very gifted people, they win and they win, and they are told that they win because they are a winner. That seems like a positive thing to tell children, but ultimately, what that means is when they lose, it must make them a loser.”

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“I have never considered myself a prodigy. Others have used that term, but I never bought in to it.”

Used Term Prodigies

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“In America, people focus on the end result; they focus on the star.”

People Ends America Stars Results Focus End Results

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“At the very core of my relationship to learning is the idea that we should be as organic as possible. We need to cultivate a deeply refined introspective sense, and build our relationship to learning around our nuance of character.”

Needs Should Ideas Character Core Our Relationship Refined Introspective Nuance

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“I tend not to dwell on the parallels between chess and business, chess and the martial arts, or any two things for that matter, because the truth is that all pursuits are connected if we gain an eye for the thematic links.”

Ifs Art Two Matter Eye Truth Is Gains Connected Chess Pursuit Two Things Martial Arts Links Parallels Thematic

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“My coach and my parents both had this relationship to what I was doing, which was allowing me to express myself with chess. And so I could love it. I had a passion for it. I was expressing myself through chess, and I was learning about myself through chess.”

Passion Parent Coaches Chess Allowing

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“One of the main focuses of my training sessions is to help individuals find their unique voices in the learning process. We all have our strengths, our weaknesses, our styles of learning, our personalities. Developing introspective sensitivity to these issues is critical to long-term success.”

“In chess you might find a good move. Then you might find a better move. But take your time. Find the best move.”

Might Moving Chess Take Your Time

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“Not only do we have to be good at waiting, we have to love it. Because waiting is not waiting, it is life.”

Waiting Be Good

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“Of course the sad truth is that if we are not present to the moment, our true love could come and go and we wouldn't even notice.”

Ifs Moments Courses Truth Is Comes And Goes Sad Truth

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“I believe an appreciation for simplicity, the everyday - the ability to dive deeply into the banal and discover life's hidden richness - is where success, let alone happiness, emerges.”

Believe I Believe Ability Everyday Simplicity Appreciation Richness

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“The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity. Usually, growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety.”

Long Process Growth Term Keys Comfort Safe Safety Embrace Excellence Long Term Expenses Mediocrity Shells Static Learning Process

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“We learn by pushing ourselves and finding what really lies at the outer reaches of our abilities.”

Lying Ability Education Findings Pushing Pushing Ourselves

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“Our minds are all different and I believe cultivating a keen introspective sensitivity is absolutely essential in discovering our potential.”

Mind Believe Different I Believe Essentials Discovering Sensitivity Introspective Cultivating

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“It is rarely a mysterious technique that drives us to the top, but rather a profound mastery of what may well be a basic skill set.”

Wells May Skills Profound Technique Mysterious Mastery

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“Growth only really comes at the point of resistance, but that is the moment that we tend to stop. Because it hurts... pushing our limits, is a muscle that can be cultivated like any other - incrementally.”

Moments Growth Hurt Pushing It Hurts

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“One thing about the business and investing world that I connect to very intimately is that there is little room to deny the harsh realities of your mistakes. A bad call can lose you many millions.”

World Littles Reality Loses Rooms Mistake Millions One Thing Investing Deny Harsh Harsh Reality

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“The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.”

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“The truth is that throughout my careers in both chess and the martial arts, I often knew that my rivals were more naturally gifted than me - either with their mental machines or their bodies. But I have believed in my training, my approach to learning, and my ability to rise to the challenge under pressure.”

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“Just about every error has a technical and psychological component: get good at discovering those connections”

Connections Entrepreneur Errors Psychological Discovering Components

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“A man wants to walk across the land, but the earth is covered with thorns. He has two options - one is to pave his road, to tame all of nature into compliance. The other is to make sandals. Making sandals is the internal solution...it does not base success on a submissive world or overpowering force, but on intelligent preparation and cultivated resilience.”

Men World Want Doe Two Earth Force Walks Land Solutions Intelligent Resilience Preparation Internals Covered Thorns Submissive Compliance Overpowering Sandals Two Options

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About the Author

Born: December 4, 1976
Known for: Chess Player
Quotes: 22

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