Podcast of the Week (Tim Ferriss #2)

This week's Podcast of the Week comes from the Tim Ferriss Show, episode #2 with guest, Josh Waitzkin.  Josh was the inspiration for the boy in the movie Searching for Bobby Fischer and went on from mastering chess to becoming a world champion in Tai Chi push hands and black belt in jiu-jitsu.  His foundation, the Art of Learning Project, is all about learning how to learn, a goal I hold dear to my heart.

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Josh went from chess to meditation, to Eastern philosophy then to Tai Chi Chuan.  He noticed a connection between his Tai Chi training and playing chess.

He wrote the Art of Learning after these experiences.

Playing simultaneous games of chess, up to 40 or more, he felt like he was in an "energetic flow" and he could even tell when someone tried cheating because the "flow" would be disrupted.

He focuses actually on Unlearning.  Finding subtle obstructions, friction points, cognitive biases.

Learning is exploring self-expression.

Deep introspection leads to top performance results.


Hemingway's two principles of writing:

1). Leaving something left to write at the end of the day (even if you stop mid-sentence)
2). Release your mind from it, leave it alone until the next day


Cognitive Biases are discussed, a very good topic to research!