Josh Waitzkin

Really? Wow. Yeah. Wow. Do you have goals? Virtuosity. Yeah, I competed my whole life. And so now I live... I train the way I would if I was in a world championship training camp.

Who else is doing that? Just a couple lunatics.

Who else is doing that? Just a couple lunatics.

Who else is doing that? Just a couple lunatics.

Yeah. But the interesting thing is like I... Yeah, I love it. But all these arts to me are connected. That's the strange thing about my art, like chess, Chinese martial arts, jiu-jitsu, surfing, foiling. To me, the fascinating thing when you get toward the pinnacle of an art is that you start to experience, at least in my...

Yeah. But the interesting thing is like I... Yeah, I love it. But all these arts to me are connected. That's the strange thing about my art, like chess, Chinese martial arts, jiu-jitsu, surfing, foiling. To me, the fascinating thing when you get toward the pinnacle of an art is that you start to experience, at least in my...

Yeah. But the interesting thing is like I... Yeah, I love it. But all these arts to me are connected. That's the strange thing about my art, like chess, Chinese martial arts, jiu-jitsu, surfing, foiling. To me, the fascinating thing when you get toward the pinnacle of an art is that you start to experience, at least in my...

from my perspective, that the apexes of these arts are much closer to one another than lower down in the mountain of the same art. So people who are virtuosos in various fields are often speaking a much more similar language than people who are at lower levels of the same art than they're training. And...

from my perspective, that the apexes of these arts are much closer to one another than lower down in the mountain of the same art. So people who are virtuosos in various fields are often speaking a much more similar language than people who are at lower levels of the same art than they're training. And...

from my perspective, that the apexes of these arts are much closer to one another than lower down in the mountain of the same art. So people who are virtuosos in various fields are often speaking a much more similar language than people who are at lower levels of the same art than they're training. And...

Like when I think about chess, I related to chess through core principles, and those principles manifest in the martial arts. I remember that I had this, when I wrote my first book, or my second book, The Art of Learning, it was about my experience of crossing over my level from chess into the Chinese martial arts.

Like when I think about chess, I related to chess through core principles, and those principles manifest in the martial arts. I remember that I had this, when I wrote my first book, or my second book, The Art of Learning, it was about my experience of crossing over my level from chess into the Chinese martial arts.

Like when I think about chess, I related to chess through core principles, and those principles manifest in the martial arts. I remember that I had this, when I wrote my first book, or my second book, The Art of Learning, it was about my experience of crossing over my level from chess into the Chinese martial arts.

And I had this really interesting experience where I was giving a simultaneous chess exhibition, playing 40 games at once in a charity for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. But at that point, I'd been training martial arts for two years, and I was in the transition away from chess during that period.

And I had this really interesting experience where I was giving a simultaneous chess exhibition, playing 40 games at once in a charity for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. But at that point, I'd been training martial arts for two years, and I was in the transition away from chess during that period.

And I had this really interesting experience where I was giving a simultaneous chess exhibition, playing 40 games at once in a charity for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. But at that point, I'd been training martial arts for two years, and I was in the transition away from chess during that period.

And I had this realization that I was winning these chess games, playing 40 games at once, but I was not playing chess. I was Feeling flow, riding space left behind. I was riding the energetic wave of the game like I would if we were flowing on the mats. But I was making chess moves. And I realized that these arts had become fundamentally connected.

And I had this realization that I was winning these chess games, playing 40 games at once, but I was not playing chess. I was Feeling flow, riding space left behind. I was riding the energetic wave of the game like I would if we were flowing on the mats. But I was making chess moves. And I realized that these arts had become fundamentally connected.

And I had this realization that I was winning these chess games, playing 40 games at once, but I was not playing chess. I was Feeling flow, riding space left behind. I was riding the energetic wave of the game like I would if we were flowing on the mats. But I was making chess moves. And I realized that these arts had become fundamentally connected.

And then that became like an area of interest and of exploration. I started making what I was doing unconsciously more and more conscious. And now when I relate to the chess, I don't move chess pieces anymore, but chess is manifest in everything that I do, as is jiu-jitsu. And as is in the ocean arts, I'm manifesting these other arts, the core principles I've experienced through them all the time.