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Josh Waitzkin is aware what this means to be at the top of his game. A general public figure since winning his first Country wide Chess Championship at the age of nine, Waitzkin was catapulted into a multimedia whirlwind as an adolescent when his father's e book Searching for Bobby Fischer was converted to a major motion picture. After dominating the scholastic chess world for a decade, Waitzkin widened his horizons, dealing with the style Tai Chi Chuan and in the end earning the title of World Champion. How was he able to reach the pinnacle of two disciplines that on the surface appear so different? "I've come to understand that what I am best at is not Tai Chi, and it is not chess," he says. "What I am best at is the art of learning." The Skill of Learning requires listeners through Waitzkin's unique quest to excellence. He talks about in clear information how a well-thought-out, principled approach to learning is what separates success from failing. Waitzkin is convinced that achievements, even at the championship level, is a function of the lifestyle that fuels a creative, resilient progress process. Rather than focusing on climactic wins, Waitzkin unveils the internal workings of his each day method, from systematically triggering intuitive breakthroughs, to honing techniques into expresses of remarkable potency, to understanding the art of performance psychology. In stories which range from his early years dealing with chess hustlers as a seven yr old in New York City's Washington Square Park, to coping with the pressures of having a film made about his life, to International Chess Championships in India, Hungary, and Brazil, to gripping battles against powerhouse fighters in Taiwan in the Push Hands World Championships, The Skill of Learning encapsulates an extraordinary competitor's life lessons in a pause-resisting narrative.
