Josh Waitzkin

every moment someone looked at him a certain way, every moment somebody like raised their voice at him and it triggered him into like a fight place, every time he'd been submitted, every time he'd been swept, every time, I realized as he was saying this, like all of his pain, is with him every moment.

every moment someone looked at him a certain way, every moment somebody like raised their voice at him and it triggered him into like a fight place, every time he'd been submitted, every time he'd been swept, every time, I realized as he was saying this, like all of his pain, is with him every moment.

every moment someone looked at him a certain way, every moment somebody like raised their voice at him and it triggered him into like a fight place, every time he'd been submitted, every time he'd been swept, every time, I realized as he was saying this, like all of his pain, is with him every moment.

And as he described this to me, it was this incredibly emotional scene where he was just weeping in his exploration, in his like just brother to brother talking to me about like he walks around with every wound he's experienced in life present all the fucking time. And so we think of this brilliant low rep learner, the guy who has a superhuman ability to learn from one experience.

And as he described this to me, it was this incredibly emotional scene where he was just weeping in his exploration, in his like just brother to brother talking to me about like he walks around with every wound he's experienced in life present all the fucking time. And so we think of this brilliant low rep learner, the guy who has a superhuman ability to learn from one experience.

And as he described this to me, it was this incredibly emotional scene where he was just weeping in his exploration, in his like just brother to brother talking to me about like he walks around with every wound he's experienced in life present all the fucking time. And so we think of this brilliant low rep learner, the guy who has a superhuman ability to learn from one experience.

And it's a superpower, but also it ravages him all the fucking time. And you can't just remove that. You can't be like, yeah, release your pain. It'd be great. Then you're also releasing the genius.

And it's a superpower, but also it ravages him all the fucking time. And you can't just remove that. You can't be like, yeah, release your pain. It'd be great. Then you're also releasing the genius.

And it's a superpower, but also it ravages him all the fucking time. And you can't just remove that. You can't be like, yeah, release your pain. It'd be great. Then you're also releasing the genius.

On and off the court.

On and off the court.

On and off the court.

Yeah, so you can be like, Mike, just take it fucking easy on the pool table. What do you care? But you can't say that. Gary Kaspar was the same way.

Yeah, so you can be like, Mike, just take it fucking easy on the pool table. What do you care? But you can't say that. Gary Kaspar was the same way.

Yeah, so you can be like, Mike, just take it fucking easy on the pool table. What do you care? But you can't say that. Gary Kaspar was the same way.

But you can't just remove that. You're removing the genius with it.

But you can't just remove that. You're removing the genius with it.

But you can't just remove that. You're removing the genius with it.

I'll never forget this chess coach, Mark Dvoretsky, he said to me this unbelievably hubristic thing when I was 15, 16 years old. He said to me, if he had had Bobby Fischer as a student, as a seven-year-old, he could have made Fischer a much, much stronger chess player without any of the craziness.

I'll never forget this chess coach, Mark Dvoretsky, he said to me this unbelievably hubristic thing when I was 15, 16 years old. He said to me, if he had had Bobby Fischer as a student, as a seven-year-old, he could have made Fischer a much, much stronger chess player without any of the craziness.