Joshua Waitzkin

My coach and my parents both had this relationship to what I was doing, which was allowing me to express myself with…

— Joshua Waitzkin

At the very core of my relationship to learning is the idea that we should be as organic as possible. We need…

— Joshua Waitzkin

I believe an appreciation for simplicity, the everyday - the ability to dive deeply into the banal and discover life's hidden richness…

— Joshua Waitzkin

Our minds are all different and I believe cultivating a keen introspective sensitivity is absolutely essential in discovering our potential.

— Joshua Waitzkin

I have never considered myself a prodigy. Others have used that term, but I never bought in to it.

— Joshua Waitzkin

Very gifted people, they win and they win, and they are told that they win because they are a winner. That seems…

— Joshua Waitzkin

One of the main focuses of my training sessions is to help individuals find their unique voices in the learning process. We…

— Joshua Waitzkin

One thing about the business and investing world that I connect to very intimately is that there is little room to deny…

— Joshua Waitzkin

Not only do we have to be good at waiting, we have to love it. Because waiting is not waiting, it is…

— Joshua Waitzkin

Of course the sad truth is that if we are not present to the moment, our true love could come and go…

— Joshua Waitzkin

I tend not to dwell on the parallels between chess and business, chess and the martial arts, or any two things for…

— Joshua Waitzkin

A man wants to walk across the land, but the earth is covered with thorns. He has two options - one is…

— Joshua Waitzkin

We learn by pushing ourselves and finding what really lies at the outer reaches of our abilities.

— Joshua Waitzkin

The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we…

— Joshua Waitzkin

In America, people focus on the end result; they focus on the star.

— Joshua Waitzkin

The truth is that throughout my careers in both chess and the martial arts, I often knew that my rivals were more…

— Joshua Waitzkin

Initially I was very drawn to the Tao Te Ching, the Taoist philosophy. It was helping me deal with the balance of…

— Joshua Waitzkin

Just about every error has a technical and psychological component: get good at discovering those connections

— Joshua Waitzkin

Growth only really comes at the point of resistance, but that is the moment that we tend to stop. Because it hurts…pushing…

— Joshua Waitzkin