How to Learn Anything Quickly and Well — The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin (Book Notes)
About This Book
Josh Waitzkin was a child prodigy chess player, and an international chess master whose father’s memoir about his early years playing chess (Searching for Bobby Fischer) was made into a popular 1993 drama film. After his childhood and youth in chess, Waitzkin took up competitive Tai Chi and beat the defending champs at the 2004 International Tai Chi Push Hands World Championships. How did he do it?
In The Art of Learning, which is part memoir, part instructional book, Waitzkin explains the thoughts and processes that led him to success in these two vastly disparate fields, and the lessons he learned throughout his life competing at the highest levels.
Intro
I could spend hours at a chessboard and stand up from the experience on fire with insights about chess, basketball, the ocean, psychology, love, art…Chess was my friend. Then suddenly, the game became alien and disquieting.
