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#412: Josh Waitzkin on Beginner’s Mind, Self-Actualization, and Advice from Your Future Self

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This episode of the tim fairy shows is brought to you by helix sleep. Get up to 125 dollars off your mattress order at helix sleep dot com. Josh whatskin, an eight time us National chess champion and a two time world champion tice push hands talks about his non-profetizing learning project. And Tim ferus explains why he travels with athletic greens in case he gets sick.

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O at this altoto, i can tin flat out for a alf pan. I shake and i answer e. Now let us tioi mus i it tesorin it i. Sois dor mat fa. So this s brought you by helix sleep. Last year i focused on dramatically improving a few things, surprise surprise, most notably the quality of my sleep, which seems to affect just about everything. This led me to revisit, you name it, my daily routine, morning routine, exercise, diet, all the way to what i slept on. And i ended up getting all new beds here in austin, texas, including mattresses from helix sleep. Helixs a sleep quiz that takes two minutes to complete, and they use the answers to match your body type and sleep preferences to the perfect mattress. Whether you're side sleep, or hot sleep, or cold sleeper, er you like plush, you like firm. With helix there's no more guessing or confusion. Just go to helix sleep dot com, forward slash tim take their two minute sleep quiz, and they'll match you to a mattress that will give you the best sleep of your life. That is promise for couples. Helix can even split the mattress down the middle, providing individual support needs and field preferences for each side. They've a ten year warrantye. And you can test drive your mattress for 100 nights risk free. Right now, helix is offering up to 125 dollars off of all mattress orders. So check it out. Get up to 125 off at helix sleep dot com. Forward slash tim. That heelix sleep dot com forrd slash tim for 125 dollars off your mattress order. Tickli. Helix sleep dot com. Foard slash tim. This episode of the tim fairy shows brought you by athletic greens. I get as all the time, if i could only take one supplement, what would it be? The answer is inevitably, athletic greens, i view it as, and a lot of you now view it as, all in one nutritional insurance. I recommended it way back in two thousand ten in the forour body, and i did not get paid to do so. I've been using it since before that. And i use it in a lot of different ways. I travel with it to avoid getting sick or to help mitigate the likelihood of getting sick. I take it in the morning to insure optimal performance. And over all, it covers my bas is if i can't get what i need from whole food meals throughout the of the day. And if you want to give athletic greens a try, they're offering a free 20 count travel pack for first time users. I nearly always travel with at least three or four of these one dose bags. In other words, if you buy athletic greens as a first time buyer, you now get, for a limited time, an extra 79 dollars in free product. So check out the details, add athletic greens dot com, forward slash tim again, that's athletic greens dot com. Forward slash tim, for your free travel pack with any purchase. Why? Hello, boys and girls, ladies and germs. This is tim ferus. Welcome to another episode of the tim feri show wor. It is my job to deconstruct world class performers, to tease out the thought processes, the best practices, the influences and so on, that you can hopefully copy and paste into your own life in some fashion. To test out the toolkets of people who are the best of what they do. My guest this episode is a return guest, josh whatskin. He was, in fact, the second ever guest, an episode too, of this podcast. We've known each other a long time. Josh whatskin is author of the art of learning. He is an eight time us. National chess champion, a two time world champion tice push hands, and the first brazilian s wo blackbelt, under nine time world champion marcello garcia, widely believed to be the greatest grappler who has ever lived, at least in the world of b j j. For the past 12 years, maybe 13, maybe 14, now, josh has been channelling his passion for the outer limits of the learning process towards training alete mental performers in business and finance, or finance, if you prefer, and to revolutionizing the tion system through his non profet foundation, the art of learning project. Josh is currently in the process of taking on his fourth and fifth disciplines, paddle serving and foiling, which we will discuss at some length in this episode. Josh is always a fantastic thought partner. He is constantly pushing back at anything that i say which reflects sloppy thinking or imprecise thinking. Or consensus thinking. And he's a lovely guy. So without further ado, please enjoy this wide rangein conversation with none other than josh waitskon. Joshua. Good day, sir imbo.

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