The Key to Pursuing Excellence Is Compounding

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The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process. Usually growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety. If you push your limits just 1% a week, you just move in the frontier out and double your ability. It takes years or sometimes decades to get to really acquire mastery.

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Jacob and Joe interview Adam Robinson in this special two-part series. Adam is a rated chess master who was mentored by Bobby Fischer in the 18 months leading up to Bobby winning the World Chess Championship. He's also the cofounder of the Princeton Review and his book Cracking the System: The SAT is the only test-prep book to have become a NY Times Best Seller. In Part 1, Adam talks with the team about being present with others, finding purpose, and overcoming depression.