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Josh Waitzkin

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The Art of Learning & Living Life | Josh Waitzkin

Or I could teach you chess principles. I could teach you very effectively with chess principles. But I could also teach you just as effectively or maybe somewhat more effectively. But it's to say just as effectively with chess principles that are also life principles. Right? And it's interesting when you watch most chess teachers, they teach in a localized manner.

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The Art of Learning & Living Life | Josh Waitzkin

Or I could teach you chess principles. I could teach you very effectively with chess principles. But I could also teach you just as effectively or maybe somewhat more effectively. But it's to say just as effectively with chess principles that are also life principles. Right? And it's interesting when you watch most chess teachers, they teach in a localized manner.

Huberman Lab
The Art of Learning & Living Life | Josh Waitzkin

So people can spend 20 years inside of chess but never break beyond the 64 squares. Or they can, from the age of six or seven on, be learning that principle as it connects to chess, but also seeing how it connects to life.

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The Art of Learning & Living Life | Josh Waitzkin

So people can spend 20 years inside of chess but never break beyond the 64 squares. Or they can, from the age of six or seven on, be learning that principle as it connects to chess, but also seeing how it connects to life.

Huberman Lab
The Art of Learning & Living Life | Josh Waitzkin

So people can spend 20 years inside of chess but never break beyond the 64 squares. Or they can, from the age of six or seven on, be learning that principle as it connects to chess, but also seeing how it connects to life.

Huberman Lab
The Art of Learning & Living Life | Josh Waitzkin

Everything transfers, first of all. Like, I mean, if we're open to it, then everything in chess connects. So when people ask me, do you still play chess? I say metaphorically. I mean, I play chess all the time. I just have not moved a piece in many, many, many years, right? So, but okay, to be specific. So I could give you many examples, but all right.

Huberman Lab
The Art of Learning & Living Life | Josh Waitzkin

Everything transfers, first of all. Like, I mean, if we're open to it, then everything in chess connects. So when people ask me, do you still play chess? I say metaphorically. I mean, I play chess all the time. I just have not moved a piece in many, many, many years, right? So, but okay, to be specific. So I could give you many examples, but all right.

Huberman Lab
The Art of Learning & Living Life | Josh Waitzkin

Everything transfers, first of all. Like, I mean, if we're open to it, then everything in chess connects. So when people ask me, do you still play chess? I say metaphorically. I mean, I play chess all the time. I just have not moved a piece in many, many, many years, right? So, but okay, to be specific. So I could give you many examples, but all right.

Huberman Lab
The Art of Learning & Living Life | Josh Waitzkin

So in chess, there's a bishop and there's a knight, right? They're both worth about three pawns. Now I can teach you, okay, so the knight moves like an L and can jump over pieces. The bishop moves diagonally and is stuck on one color for its whole life. They're both worth about three pawns.

Huberman Lab
The Art of Learning & Living Life | Josh Waitzkin

So in chess, there's a bishop and there's a knight, right? They're both worth about three pawns. Now I can teach you, okay, so the knight moves like an L and can jump over pieces. The bishop moves diagonally and is stuck on one color for its whole life. They're both worth about three pawns.

Huberman Lab
The Art of Learning & Living Life | Josh Waitzkin

So in chess, there's a bishop and there's a knight, right? They're both worth about three pawns. Now I can teach you, okay, so the knight moves like an L and can jump over pieces. The bishop moves diagonally and is stuck on one color for its whole life. They're both worth about three pawns.

Huberman Lab
The Art of Learning & Living Life | Josh Waitzkin

But knights are, and I can just say to you, but like knights are a little bit better in closed positions because they can jump over things. Bishops are a little better if the pawns, if your pawns are on the opposite color from them, right? But you should also know that rooks and bishops are more, The bishops and knights are about the same.

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The Art of Learning & Living Life | Josh Waitzkin

But knights are, and I can just say to you, but like knights are a little bit better in closed positions because they can jump over things. Bishops are a little better if the pawns, if your pawns are on the opposite color from them, right? But you should also know that rooks and bishops are more, The bishops and knights are about the same.

Huberman Lab
The Art of Learning & Living Life | Josh Waitzkin

But knights are, and I can just say to you, but like knights are a little bit better in closed positions because they can jump over things. Bishops are a little better if the pawns, if your pawns are on the opposite color from them, right? But you should also know that rooks and bishops are more, The bishops and knights are about the same.

Huberman Lab
The Art of Learning & Living Life | Josh Waitzkin

Rooks and bishops are much stronger than rooks and knights. And you should also know that queens and knights are a bit stronger than queens and bishops. So the bishop's value is a little bit stronger compared with a rook, and the knight's value is a little bit stronger with a queen, and pawn structure influences them, right?

Huberman Lab
The Art of Learning & Living Life | Josh Waitzkin

Rooks and bishops are much stronger than rooks and knights. And you should also know that queens and knights are a bit stronger than queens and bishops. So the bishop's value is a little bit stronger compared with a rook, and the knight's value is a little bit stronger with a queen, and pawn structure influences them, right?

Huberman Lab
The Art of Learning & Living Life | Josh Waitzkin

Rooks and bishops are much stronger than rooks and knights. And you should also know that queens and knights are a bit stronger than queens and bishops. So the bishop's value is a little bit stronger compared with a rook, and the knight's value is a little bit stronger with a queen, and pawn structure influences them, right?

Huberman Lab
The Art of Learning & Living Life | Josh Waitzkin

So I could teach you a very simple set of principles through which you can understand how to evaluate bishops and knights, right? And there's many other layers to that, but that's some of it, right? I could also teach you the same thing and be teaching you the nature of relativity. I could be teaching you the nature of interdependence.

Huberman Lab
The Art of Learning & Living Life | Josh Waitzkin

So I could teach you a very simple set of principles through which you can understand how to evaluate bishops and knights, right? And there's many other layers to that, but that's some of it, right? I could also teach you the same thing and be teaching you the nature of relativity. I could be teaching you the nature of interdependence.

Huberman Lab
The Art of Learning & Living Life | Josh Waitzkin

So I could teach you a very simple set of principles through which you can understand how to evaluate bishops and knights, right? And there's many other layers to that, but that's some of it, right? I could also teach you the same thing and be teaching you the nature of relativity. I could be teaching you the nature of interdependence.