Chess grandmaster Maurice Ashley on why mistakes are our greatest teachers

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🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Maurice Ashley is a trailblazing chess grandmaster — the first African-American player to claim that prestigious title. He’s also a chess coaching legend, as spotlighted in Adam's new book, “Hidden Potential.” Adam and Maurice discuss the lessons from losing, the benefits of respecting your opponents, and what drives a winning strategy in chess and life. Transcripts for ReThinking are available at go.ted.com/RWAGscripts

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:14.0	work. Transform your operations and move forward faster with pager duty. Hey everyone, it's Adam Graham.
0:18.0	Welcome back to Rethinking, my podcast on the science of what makes us take.
0:22.0	I'm an organizational
0:23.6	psychologist and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating people to
0:27.3	explore new thoughts and new ways of thinking. My guest today is Maurice
0:31.8	Ashley. He's a chess grandmaster, the first African American
0:36.1	ever to earn that title. He's a member of the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame, and he's also a popular
0:41.4	commentator and an extraordinary coach.
0:44.0	He's the star of the opening of my book Hidden Potential,
0:47.0	where I chronicled how he led an underdog middle school chess team
0:50.0	to smash expectations and shatter stereotypes.
0:54.6	Since the book came out, one of the most frequent requests I've gotten is for more Maurice.
0:59.8	So here he is.
1:01.3	Maurice has a book coming out in April, Move by Move, about how to think like a chess player.
1:06.9	Every time I talk with him, I end up rethinking some assumptions.
1:10.5	And this conversation is no exception.
1:16.0	There goes the big AG.
1:18.0	Maurice?
1:19.0	Looking intense?
1:20.0	Trying to.
1:21.0	I'm trying to.
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