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#148: Josh Waitzkin, The Prodigy Returns

The Tim Ferriss Show

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Writing in a Quiet Environment Is a Forcing Function

I thrive in noisy environments. I feel like it focused me. It forces me to focus inward. So for me, a studying languages, even in a loud environment, writing in a loudenvironment is a forcing function for me. But i can definitely see why for even perhaps a majority of people it would be. We want to be able to have a meditative state throughout our life in a hurricane, in a thunderstorm. Youon when sharks are attacking you any moment,. ecause that's paddle boarding.

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