Joshua Waitzkin
Joshua Waitzkin
Joshua Waitzkinis an American chess player, martial arts competitor, and author. As a child, he was recognized as a prodigy, and won the U.S. Junior Chess championship in 1993 and 1994. He is the only person to have won the National Primary, Elementary, Junior High School, High School, U.S. Cadet, and U.S. Junior Closed chess championships in his career. The movie Searching for Bobby Fischer is based on his early life...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChess Player
Date of Birth4 December 1976
CountryUnited States of America
Joshua Waitzkin quotes about
A man wants to walk across the land, but the earth is covered with thorns. He has two options - one is to pave his road, to tame all of nature into compliance. The other is to make sandals. Making sandals is the internal solution...it does not base success on a submissive world or overpowering force, but on intelligent preparation and cultivated resilience.
Just about every error has a technical and psychological component: get good at discovering those connections
Of course the sad truth is that if we are not present to the moment, our true love could come and go and we wouldn't even notice.
Maybe it's better not to be the best. Then you can lose and it's OK.
My coach and my parents both had this relationship to what I was doing, which was allowing me to express myself with chess. And so I could love it. I had a passion for it. I was expressing myself through chess, and I was learning about myself through chess.
One thing about the business and investing world that I connect to very intimately is that there is little room to deny the harsh realities of your mistakes. A bad call can lose you many millions.