Josh Waitzkin

There's no fucking luck in chess. If you're playing chess, if you have an opening repertoire that's massive and you go into a game and there's one little place that there's a weakness and you don't want your opponent to go, he always fucking finds it. You don't know why.

You never like make a move and hope he doesn't see it or I'll play – let's hit this trap and it's not the best move but maybe he'll fall into it. No, that never works at a high level. So you just – you have to take your shit on.

You never like make a move and hope he doesn't see it or I'll play – let's hit this trap and it's not the best move but maybe he'll fall into it. No, that never works at a high level. So you just – you have to take your shit on.

You never like make a move and hope he doesn't see it or I'll play – let's hit this trap and it's not the best move but maybe he'll fall into it. No, that never works at a high level. So you just – you have to take your shit on.

Yeah, I don't anymore. I did young and now I don't associate it with anything. I just don't do it.

Yeah, I don't anymore. I did young and now I don't associate it with anything. I just don't do it.

Yeah, I don't anymore. I did young and now I don't associate it with anything. I just don't do it.

Unless I try.

Unless I try.

Unless I try.

Right. But if it's kind of driving you – for me, I think it's healthier for me to recognize that pattern in myself and then roll with it as opposed to just not even see like that it's – That it's there. That it's there.

Right. But if it's kind of driving you – for me, I think it's healthier for me to recognize that pattern in myself and then roll with it as opposed to just not even see like that it's – That it's there. That it's there.

Right. But if it's kind of driving you – for me, I think it's healthier for me to recognize that pattern in myself and then roll with it as opposed to just not even see like that it's – That it's there. That it's there.

Like if I'm cooking a turkey, I have to cook a world-class turkey. I have a friend, Jim Detmer, who says to me, Josh, what you have to do is cook a terrible turkey. Just cook an average turkey. Don't crush it. In other words, it's an interesting thing when you become present to the fact that you have this youthful story running through everything you do. And you can choose to live that way.

Like if I'm cooking a turkey, I have to cook a world-class turkey. I have a friend, Jim Detmer, who says to me, Josh, what you have to do is cook a terrible turkey. Just cook an average turkey. Don't crush it. In other words, it's an interesting thing when you become present to the fact that you have this youthful story running through everything you do. And you can choose to live that way.

Like if I'm cooking a turkey, I have to cook a world-class turkey. I have a friend, Jim Detmer, who says to me, Josh, what you have to do is cook a terrible turkey. Just cook an average turkey. Don't crush it. In other words, it's an interesting thing when you become present to the fact that you have this youthful story running through everything you do. And you can choose to live that way.

Jiu-Jitsu was the art I had to move on from not on my own terms. Because I ruptured my L405 disc. There it is. Trained on it like a crazy person for a couple years. And then the doctors looked at that and they were just like, if you keep on doing this, you're not going to be able to walk. You're not going to be able to play ball.

Jiu-Jitsu was the art I had to move on from not on my own terms. Because I ruptured my L405 disc. There it is. Trained on it like a crazy person for a couple years. And then the doctors looked at that and they were just like, if you keep on doing this, you're not going to be able to walk. You're not going to be able to play ball.

Jiu-Jitsu was the art I had to move on from not on my own terms. Because I ruptured my L405 disc. There it is. Trained on it like a crazy person for a couple years. And then the doctors looked at that and they were just like, if you keep on doing this, you're not going to be able to walk. You're not going to be able to play ball.

It's great now.