The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance

Yeah, okay, so for your first question there, so how do I do it? Um, first of all, with difficulty.

Um, and second of all, what I've learned over time and in training and in work, I've learned this, this piece of advice from a guy called Josh Waitzkin, who's a, he wrote an excellent book that I'd recommend to, to anyone out there interested in high performance called The Art of Learning.

It's a bit of a classic in high performance world, and he talks about this concept in there, and he says, "How well we turn it on depends on how well we turn it off." And- I really apply this in my life.

And before, when I started off in the corporate world, I was always on.

And there's, there's a good book about this, too.

Uh, uh, Josh Waitzkin, The Art of Learning.

Ah.

Mm.

Uh, it's, it's a great book on, on...

Because he gives little jujitsu references, too, but Tai Chi and, uh, and, like, business advice and all that, too.

But The Art of Learning, it's a great book, and he just talks about tur- like, the more you have that ritual placed in front of you beforehand, the more you're, you're set, then.

I'm, I can go-

All righty.

Your second book that's coming in a little heavy for you, Liz, it comes in at 259 pages, is The Art of Learning: The Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence, written by Josh Waitzkin, whose name might be familiar to some astute listeners.

Yeah.

This w- this was heavy in the pages, but not a heavy lift because it was a great story, and it's one that you may have heard before.

Huh

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The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence, and they changed it to The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance.

I, like-

One quick thought that's emerging related to e-foiling.

Have you ever read the book, The Art of Learning?

No, but I'm super curious about it.

Yeah.

So Josh Waitzkin, who his, his bio, as I understand it, super impressive, like started out as a Tai Chi push hands practitioner, then moved into jujitsu, high level practitioner there.

And I think his latest thing is e-foiling.

And when he talks about it, he talks about how the art of learning, how you learn anything well can be applied to anything.

And so, yeah, you might be interested in checking that book out.

He was the kid featured in Searching for Bobby Fischer.

Check out The Art of Learning, phenomenal book, and a bunch of other titles.

With that, let's get to work.

We've got five big ideas.

And then therefore, we don't get a true understanding of what we're actually learning.

Before I kind of pause my little tangent here, I'll share that one of my favorite books of all time is called The Art of Learning by Joshua Waitzkin.

Joshua was both an international chess grandmaster and some type of mixed martial artist champion.

I forget the discipline, but one intellectual, one physical.