“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.”
—Indian proverb
Josh Waitzkin, the chess prodigy turned world-champion-martial artist, has faced and beaten the world’s best.
And at the highest levels of competition, there are always dirty players. Waitzkin encountered them in his chess career as a fifteen-year-old.
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