Josh Waitzkin

Almost all chest blunders, you realize you've blundered instantly. You can think for 20 minutes, make your move, you know instantly you've blundered. Because there's not that surfacing, right? But then you can learn to just do the surfacing before making the actual move. It's true with human decision-making in general. Right, we realize the screw-up right as we complete it.

Almost all chest blunders, you realize you've blundered instantly. You can think for 20 minutes, make your move, you know instantly you've blundered. Because there's not that surfacing, right? But then you can learn to just do the surfacing before making the actual move. It's true with human decision-making in general. Right, we realize the screw-up right as we complete it.

Yeah, because we're caught up in all of our bullshit. We make the move, and then we've left our thought process, and like, oh, that was just absurd, right? And we see it.

Yeah, because we're caught up in all of our bullshit. We make the move, and then we've left our thought process, and like, oh, that was just absurd, right? And we see it.

Yeah, because we're caught up in all of our bullshit. We make the move, and then we've left our thought process, and like, oh, that was just absurd, right? And we see it.

I mean, you think about the heartbreaking literature, you know, studies in how people who have jumped off a bridge relate to it the moment after they've jumped off the bridge, those who have survived, right, the interviews afterwards. Yeah, they report wishing they hadn't jumped. Right.

I mean, you think about the heartbreaking literature, you know, studies in how people who have jumped off a bridge relate to it the moment after they've jumped off the bridge, those who have survived, right, the interviews afterwards. Yeah, they report wishing they hadn't jumped. Right.

I mean, you think about the heartbreaking literature, you know, studies in how people who have jumped off a bridge relate to it the moment after they've jumped off the bridge, those who have survived, right, the interviews afterwards. Yeah, they report wishing they hadn't jumped. Right.

It's interesting. So I have this term I use called firewalking, which for me what it means is cultivating the ability to learn from experiences one doesn't have with the same somatic intensity that one learns from really intense experiences that we have.

It's interesting. So I have this term I use called firewalking, which for me what it means is cultivating the ability to learn from experiences one doesn't have with the same somatic intensity that one learns from really intense experiences that we have.

It's interesting. So I have this term I use called firewalking, which for me what it means is cultivating the ability to learn from experiences one doesn't have with the same somatic intensity that one learns from really intense experiences that we have.

So for example, let's just say you're a jiu-jitsu fighter and you overextend your arm and you're in a world championship and you get your arm broken. or your shoulder ripped off or something. So you've lost the world championship and you got a shattered arm. You're not gonna overextend your arm that way again. You've learned that that lesson is burned in.

So for example, let's just say you're a jiu-jitsu fighter and you overextend your arm and you're in a world championship and you get your arm broken. or your shoulder ripped off or something. So you've lost the world championship and you got a shattered arm. You're not gonna overextend your arm that way again. You've learned that that lesson is burned in.

So for example, let's just say you're a jiu-jitsu fighter and you overextend your arm and you're in a world championship and you get your arm broken. or your shoulder ripped off or something. So you've lost the world championship and you got a shattered arm. You're not gonna overextend your arm that way again. You've learned that that lesson is burned in.

But like, if you're watching a jiu-jitsu fight and someone overextends their arm and gets armbarred and then taps out, it's very, very different experience. How can we cultivate the ability to study other people's like worst, most heartbreaking blunders, worst moments, et cetera, and learn from that with the same somatic intensity that they learned from it, right? So much of that is physiological.

But like, if you're watching a jiu-jitsu fight and someone overextends their arm and gets armbarred and then taps out, it's very, very different experience. How can we cultivate the ability to study other people's like worst, most heartbreaking blunders, worst moments, et cetera, and learn from that with the same somatic intensity that they learned from it, right? So much of that is physiological.

But like, if you're watching a jiu-jitsu fight and someone overextends their arm and gets armbarred and then taps out, it's very, very different experience. How can we cultivate the ability to study other people's like worst, most heartbreaking blunders, worst moments, et cetera, and learn from that with the same somatic intensity that they learned from it, right? So much of that is physiological.

So I spent a lot of time doing biofeedback and a lot of time doing visualization practices and doing very intense visualization practices and many, many years working with triggers for my own psychology and physiology so that I can get my physiology primed to have an intense learning experience while studying something that might otherwise just feel intellectual.

So I spent a lot of time doing biofeedback and a lot of time doing visualization practices and doing very intense visualization practices and many, many years working with triggers for my own psychology and physiology so that I can get my physiology primed to have an intense learning experience while studying something that might otherwise just feel intellectual.

So I spent a lot of time doing biofeedback and a lot of time doing visualization practices and doing very intense visualization practices and many, many years working with triggers for my own psychology and physiology so that I can get my physiology primed to have an intense learning experience while studying something that might otherwise just feel intellectual.