How to Achieve Excellence Through The Art Of Learning

Josh Waitzkin became a public figure since winning his first National Chess Championship at the age of nine, and then he was catapulted into a media whirlwind as a teenager when his father’s bookSearching for Bobby Fischerwas made into a major motion picture.

The Art of Learningis not about the story of a prodigy, but about how to pursue excellence through a love for the process of learning (or also called deliberate practice).

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