A man wants to walk across the land, but the earth is covered with thorns. He has two options - one is to pave his road, to tame all of nature into compliance. The other is to make sandals. Making sandals is the internal solution...it does not base success on a submissive world or overpowering force, but on intelligent preparation and cultivated resilience.
Joshua WaitzkinI have never considered myself a prodigy. Others have used that term, but I never bought in to it.
Joshua WaitzkinGrowth only really comes at the point of resisยญtance, but that is the moment that we tend to stop. Because it hurts... pushing our limยญits, is a musยญcle that can be culยญtiยญvated like any other - incrementally.
Joshua WaitzkinVery gifted people, they win and they win, and they are told that they win because they are a winner. That seems like a positive thing to tell children, but ultimately, what that means is when they lose, it must make them a loser.
Joshua WaitzkinI believe an appreciation for simplicity, the everyday - the ability to dive deeply into the banal and discover life's hidden richness - is where success, let alone happiness, emerges.
Joshua Waitzkin