This article was originally published on May 2nd 2009.  Josh Waitzkin became a world-class champion in two seemingly unrelated fields – chess (they even made a movie about him) and Push Hands Tai Chi.  On the outside these may seem like totally different worlds, but both of them are  activities that require high levels of internal control to be successful.  And Josh became an expert in developing that mental and emotional control. Josh uses The Art of Learning to examine the processes he used to develop mastery in these two fields.  He follows a biographical time line to do so, but he’s really more concerned with the lessons he learned … [Read more...]