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Art of Learning An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance

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ISBN-10: 0743277465

ISBN-13: 9780743277464

Edition: 2008

Authors: Josh Waitzkin

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Josh Waitzkin knows what it means to be at the top of his game. A public figure since winning his first National Chess Championship at the age of nine, Waitzkin was catapulted into a media whirlwind as a teenager when his father's bookSearching for Bobby Fischerwas made into a major motion picture. After dominating the scholastic chess world for ten years, Waitzkin expanded his horizons, taking on the martial art Tai Chi Chuan and ultimately earning the title of World Champion. How was he able to reach the pinnacle of two disciplines that on the surface seem so different? "I've come to realize that what I am best at is not Tai Chi, and it is not chess," he says. "What I am best at is the…    
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Book details

List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 5/27/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.44" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Josh Waitzkin, an eight-time National Chess Champion in his youth, was the subject of the book and movie Searching for Bobby Fischer. At eighteen, he published his first book, Josh Waitzkin's Attacking Chess. Since the age of twenty, he has developed and been spokesperson for Chessmaster, the largest computer chess program in the world. Now a martial arts champion, he holds a combined twenty-one National Championship titles in addition to several World Championship titles. When not traveling the country giving seminars and keynote presentations, he lives and trains in New York City. He can be reached at www.joshwaitzkin.com . For more information about Chessmaster visit www.ubi.com .

Introduction
The Foundation
Innocent Moves
Losing to Win
Two Approaches to Learning
Loving the Game
The Soft Zone
The Downward Spiral
Changing Voice
Breaking Stallions
My Second Art
Beginner's Mind
Investment in Loss
Making Smaller Circles
Using Adversity
Slowing Down Time
The Illusion of the Mystical
Bringing it All Together
The Power of Presence
Searching for the Zone
Building Your Trigger
Making Sandals
Bringing It All Together
Taiwan
Afterword
Acknowledgments
About the Author