Minor correction. Josh Waitzkin competed in Tai Chi push hands, not Tao de Ching.
I also found The Art of Learning very inspiring but found it difficult to put any of its recommendations into concrete practice. Quite a lot of the book is devoted to specific recommendations, such as cultivating a “trigger” for a certain desirable high-performance mental state, but I have never managed to actually make any of that stuff work. And that feels like a shame, because I’m convinced that it could work.
I looked that up before quoting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai_chi there are various spellings. You can check out the youtube videos of some of the events he describes in the book, they are interesting too..
Minor correction. Josh Waitzkin competed in Tai Chi push hands, not Tao de Ching.
I also found The Art of Learning very inspiring but found it difficult to put any of its recommendations into concrete practice. Quite a lot of the book is devoted to specific recommendations, such as cultivating a “trigger” for a certain desirable high-performance mental state, but I have never managed to actually make any of that stuff work. And that feels like a shame, because I’m convinced that it could work.
Thanks for posting this.
I looked that up before quoting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai_chi there are various spellings. You can check out the youtube videos of some of the events he describes in the book, they are interesting too..