Josh Waitzkin on Beginner’s Mind, Self Actualization and More | The Tim Ferriss Show

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

March 4, 2020

Duration

1h 23m

Channel

Tim Ferriss

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Sign up for my free "5-Bullet Friday" newsletter: https://go.tim.blog/5-bullet-friday-yt/ Every Friday, I send out an exclusive email with the five coolest things I’ve found (or explored) that week. It could include exclusive giveaways or chances to interact with me, books, gadgets, albums, articles, new hacks/tricks, and — of course — all sorts of weird stuff I dig up around the world. Josh Waitzkin, author of The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance, is an eight-time national chess champion, a two-time world champion in Tai Chi Chuan Push Hands, and the first Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belt under nine-time world champion Marcelo Garcia. For the past 12 years, Josh has been channeling his passion for the outer limits of the learning process toward training elite mental performers in business and finance and to revolutionizing the education system through his nonprofit foundation, The Art of Learning Project. Josh is currently in the process of taking on his fourth and fifth disciplines, paddle surfing and foiling, and is an all-in father and husband. Please enjoy! SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/1dSzTkW About Tim Ferriss: Tim Ferriss is one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and an early-stage tech investor/advisor in Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ other companies. He is also the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors. The Observer and other media have named him “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of his podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, which has exceeded 400 million downloads and been selected for “Best of iTunes” three years running. Connect with Tim Ferriss: Sign up for "5-Bullet Friday" (Tim's email newsletter): https://go.tim.blog/5-bullet-friday-1/ Visit the Tim Ferriss PODCAST: https://tim.blog/podcast/ Visit the Tim Ferriss BLOG: https://tim.blog/ Follow Tim Ferriss on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/tferriss/ Follow Tim Ferriss on INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/timferriss/ Like Tim Ferriss on FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/TimFerriss/ Start [00:00] Josh’s history with chess Grandmaster Maurice Ashley [04:45] Josh Waitzkin vs. Dan Caulfield: approaches to learning [10:16] Foil boarding and a learning metaphor [11:38] eFoiling, one-wheeling, and learning how to fall safely [13:14] Being comfortable around extraordinary circumstances to fully experience what follows [18:49] Designing a learning process around the meta [22:16] The benefits of being a beginner [26:10] Asking for advice from another version of yourself [32:44] The time Josh almost died doing Wim Hoff breathing [39:58] Writing exercises to connect with mortality [42:02] On physiologically embodying what you want to learn [43:38] Feedback loops [46:59] When a coach or trainer’s feedback might be counterproductive [53:39] How Josh stress-tests the integrity of his own thinking and positions? [55:10] Complementary vs. complimentary feedback [58:54] On crazy confidence [1:00:24] The unexpected rewards of approaching skill acquisition in an unorthodox way [1:03:37] Reps hidden in plain sight [1:05:46] Conceptual or thematic reps hidden in plain sight [1:09:02] Josh’s unorthodox method of teaching my girlfriend and me to surf [1:10:04] Who is Robert Kegan, and why is he interesting to Josh? [1:15:29] Parting thoughts. [1:18:35]

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Tim Ferriss

  host

  Entrepreneur, author, and host of The Tim Ferriss Show.

• Josh Waitzkin

  guest

  Chess prodigy turned performance coach and author focused on learning and mastery.

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Tim Ferriss, featuring Tim Ferriss and Josh Waitzkin, Josh Waitzkin on Beginner’s Mind, Self Actualization and More | The Tim Ferriss Show explores Josh Waitzkin on learning through principles, reps, feedback, and perspective Josh Waitzkin and Tim Ferriss use foiling, chess, and martial arts to explore how to learn through principles, conceptual models, and transferable themes rather than only technique-specific practice.

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