761 - Chess Grandmaster Judit Polgár: Learning how to learn with chess

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Prodigy vs talent vs hard work. Is a prodigy born or made? How important is talent compare to hard work? What is the role of the educator nowadays compare pre-Google days? In this episode, I am honored to have Judit Polgár, Chess Grandmaster, on to talk about her origin story, her take on the education system nowadays, how can chess be translated into education, how can an adult learn a new skill at a high level. Towards the end of the episode, Jay The Engineer and I also talked about what we learned from the episode, and also discuss the techniques to learn a new skill as an adult. If you're a chess player, or not, make sure you check out: https://www.globalchessfestival.com/ My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book! Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president. I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast. Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts: Apple Podcasts Stitcher iHeart Radio Spotify Follow me on Social Media: YouTube Twitter Facebook ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.8	This is the James Altiger Show.
0:12.8	Today on the James Altiger Show.
0:16.3	So very excited that I'm going to have on Judith Polgar.
0:19.1	Let me tell you a story because it's really fascinating.
0:22.4	In the late 1960s, a young man named Lazzle Polgar, P-O-L-G-A-R, a teacher and a psychologist,
0:30.7	he had an idea for, let's call it an experiment.
0:34.0	He specifically wanted to marry somebody who agreed with his ideas about education and
0:39.8	that they would have children.
0:41.7	They wanted to have six children or he wanted to have six children and they would focus
0:45.8	them at an early age on a topic that the kids would gravitate to, whether it was tennis
0:51.9	or music or math or chess or whatever and they would homeschool them and teach them in
0:58.4	a very focused manner this topic and see if they can create champions or the best in
1:03.9	the world.
1:04.9	So an interesting experiment was that he was basically testing ideas is achievement talent
1:11.8	based or skill based, you know, slash hard work.
1:15.9	And his opinion was is that talent is useless and that hard work, dedication and perseverance
1:23.0	and learning how to learn were the important things in becoming a master level or world
1:29.1	level achiever at any topic, any domain at all.
1:32.6	So Lazzle Polgar's three children were Susan Polgar who at a very young age became the
1:40.7	first female chess grandmaster who was ranked as a grandmaster according to the male
1:48.4	standards at that time.
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