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I have just read Josh Waitzkin's book, "The Art of Learning", detailing his ideas on chess and martial arts learning. It's focus is on how to create elite perfomance.
You can get the flavour of the book from the introduction:
http://www.simonsays.com/content/book.cfm?...d=526819&agid=2
There are youtube video clips showing Tai Chi Push Hands
http://youtube.com/watch?v=eNqo0_qqoBk
One of best things for me was his ideas on utilising anger (p 200 onwards): rather than let yourself get upset, channel the anger to stimulate your creativity. This requires practise.
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elite performance Josh Waitzkin "The Art of Learning"
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Posted 2007-May-10, 22:48
Peter . . . . AKQ . . . . K = 3 points = 1 trick
"Of course wishes everybody to win and play as good as possible, but it is a hobby and a game, not war." 42 (BBO Forums)
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"Doing is the real hard part" Emma Coats (formerly from Pixar)
"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again." Oscar Wilde
"Assessment, far more than religion, has become the opiate of the people" Patricia Broadfoot, Uni of Gloucestershire, UK
"Of course wishes everybody to win and play as good as possible, but it is a hobby and a game, not war." 42 (BBO Forums)
"If a man speaks in the forest and there are no women around to hear is he still wrong?" anon
"Politics: an inadequate substitute for bridge." John Maynard Keynes
"This is how Europe works, it dithers, it delays, it makes cowardly small steps towards the truth and at some point that which it has admonished as impossible it embraces as inevitable." Athens University economist Yanis Varoufakis
"Krypt3ia @ Craig, dude, don't even get me started on you. You have posted so far two articles that I and others have found patently clueless. So please, step away from the keyboard before you hurt yourself." Comment on infosecisland.com
"Doing is the real hard part" Emma Coats (formerly from Pixar)
"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again." Oscar Wilde
"Assessment, far more than religion, has become the opiate of the people" Patricia Broadfoot, Uni of Gloucestershire, UK
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Posted 2007-May-11, 10:11
Scanning the excerpt, I thought "I wonder if this is the guy from In Search of Bobby Fisher ". Reading the details, I found that it was. I liked the movie a lot (a bit hokey here and there, but not so much as to ruin a good story) and have sometimes wondered what happened next.
To me the most interesting feature of the movie was the question: Suppose your kid shows signs of genius, and suppose he plans to use that gift playing chess. Do you nurture this or do you try to get him interested in, say, DNA research.
I don't actually want anyone's advice about how to learn (I may need it, I just don't want it) but if he talks about how his life has gone since where the movie left off, I may buy the book.
To me the most interesting feature of the movie was the question: Suppose your kid shows signs of genius, and suppose he plans to use that gift playing chess. Do you nurture this or do you try to get him interested in, say, DNA research.
I don't actually want anyone's advice about how to learn (I may need it, I just don't want it) but if he talks about how his life has gone since where the movie left off, I may buy the book.
Ken
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