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The Internal Scorecard

I’ve found that a critical component to living a happy and successful life is developing an internal scorecard: where you decide what’s important to you and you evaluate your life and performance according to that criteria. If you do not define success for yourself, you will get sucked into chasing what society deems as valuable. And what’s worse than playing a game with a prize you don’t want to win?

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Learning, Philosophy, High Performance: The Ultimate Guide to Josh Waitzkin

How do top performers become the best in the world? This is the question which Josh’s life and work will help you answer. I’ve written this post in order to collect all the bits and pieces of Josh’s wisdom and put them in one place for you to explore and digest. If you’re interested in learning, creativity, competition or becoming world class in your discipline, then you’d be wise to study Josh’s life and lessons carefully.

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Everything is a Skill

If I had to teach only one thing to every student, athlete, artist or aspiring top performer in the world this would be it. If you want to succeed at school and in life, you need to have a growth mindset -- the belief that your potential is not fixed and that with hard work, smart training and perseverance, you can get better at everything.

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