Initially I was very drawn to the Tao Te Ching, the Taoist philosophy. It was helping me deal with the balance of these external and internal issues with my chess life. Tai chi is the martial embodiment of Taoist philosophy.… — Joshua Waitzkin Copy Share Image
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… — Joshua Waitzkin Copy Share Image
My coach and my parents both had this relationship to what I was doing, which was allowing me to express myself with chess. And… — Joshua Waitzkin Copy Share Image
At the very core of my relationship to learning is the idea that we should be as organic as possible. We need to cultivate… — Joshua Waitzkin Copy Share Image
I believe an appreciation for simplicity, the everyday - the ability to dive deeply into the banal and discover life's hidden richness - is… — Joshua Waitzkin Copy Share Image
Our minds are all different and I believe cultivating a keen introspective sensitivity is absolutely essential in discovering our potential. — Joshua Waitzkin Copy Share Image
I have never considered myself a prodigy. Others have used that term, but I never bought in to it. — Joshua Waitzkin Copy Share Image
Very gifted people, they win and they win, and they are told that they win because they are a winner. That seems like a… — Joshua Waitzkin Copy Share Image
One of the main focuses of my training sessions is to help individuals find their unique voices in the learning process. We all have… — Joshua Waitzkin Copy Share Image
One thing about the business and investing world that I connect to very intimately is that there is little room to deny the harsh… — Joshua Waitzkin Copy Share Image
Not only do we have to be good at waiting, we have to love it. Because waiting is not waiting, it is life. — Joshua Waitzkin Copy Share Image
Of course the sad truth is that if we are not present to the moment, our true love could come and go and we… — Joshua Waitzkin Copy Share Image
I tend not to dwell on the parallels between chess and business, chess and the martial arts, or any two things for that matter,… — Joshua Waitzkin Copy Share Image
A man wants to walk across the land, but the earth is covered with thorns. He has two options - one is to pave… — Joshua Waitzkin Copy Share Image
