What Got You There with Sean DeLaney

Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• When you feel obstructed, you’re trying to fit into a mold that isn’t right for you
  • Unobstructed self-expression: high performance and personal satisfaction comes at the harmonious intersection of pursuit and unique disposition
• “The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic long-term learning process and not to live in a shell of static mediocrity, usually growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety”– Sean DeLaney quoting Josh Waitzkin
  • Live on the other side of pain – crave mental resistance, our greatest insights are found in our disappointments
• Go all-in on chaos
  • Take every opportunity in your daily life to test the boundaries of your current comfort zone
    • “Reps hidden in plain sight”– Sean DeLaney quoting Josh Waitzkin
    • “It’s learning to completely love chaos till the tension isn’t grinding on you”– Sean DeLaney quoting Josh Waitzkin
• The best performers understand the necessary, cyclical, and symbiotic relationship between stress and recovery
  • Life works in oscillation – In order to switch on intensely, you must also learn how to switch-off intensely
    • Many people live their whole lives at a ‘simmering 6’ rather than at 0 or 10
• Depth over breadth helps you explore quality
  • If you fail to learn how to learn before exploring a subject, your knowledge is built on suspected (superficies) foundations
    • Once you understand the micro-factors of the subject that define quality you will be able to identify quality quicker at a macro level
    • This is the idea of thematic learning, transferring lessons across experiences. Once you know the principles of mastery, you can apply them quicker in the next pursuit.

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Josh Waitzkin, author of The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance, is an eight-time national chess champion, a two-time world champion in Tai Chi Chuan Push Hands, and the first Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt under nine-time world champion Marcelo Garcia. This distillation of Josh Waitzkin is the discussion of the learning process and performance psychology, drawing from Josh's experiences in both chess and martial arts. It covers the key themes of Josh's learning process: Unobstructed Self Expression Thematic Learning, Depth over Breadth, Go towards Stress, Tension & Weaknesses, Lifeworks in Oscillation, and the 20 Principles of learning. In addition to Josh's intense competitive life, he is a renowned writer and teacher in the fields of learning and performance psychology.

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