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Josh Waitzkin On the Art of Learning

The Progression Project

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The Importance of Focusing on the MIQ

A year ago, I came crazy close to dying doing this breath hold work. It's the carbon docs that gives you the urge to breathe. You do this kind of breath work, you flush all the carbon docs out of your system so you don't have any urge to breathe before you blackout. So I had shallow water blackout. I was on the bottom of a pool for three and a half minutes before someone pulled me out. The essence of how I would post mortimat is that you and I were disconnected from our compass in some ways because of our relationship to one another in that moment.

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