What if you are the number two player in the world in whatever sport or activity,

whatever it is you love doing.

Your number two.

There's number one and you're numbers.

Let's say hundreds of millions of people play your sport or

game or activity and out of all those hundreds of millions you're the second

best in the world and then suddenly you bit by bit drop, you go down to the top 10,

now you're no longer in the top 20, you go below the top 20,

and so you figure, okay, it's over. I got a little too old, something happened, new people arrived.

I'm no longer at the top 20, my career as the best or potentially the best is over. and this is what happened to

hicaro Nakamura he was the number two player in the world in chess in I

think it was 2015 and Magnus Carlson was number first and

had Carl couldn't quite break through to number one and then bit by bit after this

you know almost 20 year career he starts to drop he falls below the top 20 and he says you know what I'm gonna

Start you know the COVID the pandemic happened he started streaming he started making YouTube videos but mostly every day he was playing

chess online and streaming it meaning he was doing it live and he would talk about chess and

answer questions and he suddenly built up an audience in the millions like tons of people

Millions of people follow this guy and they love him as an entertainer and as a chess player and it's so so amazing to have such a quality chess player do this live streaming

every single day and he explains how to be great a streaming but an interesting

thing happened is that a few years after he started doing this, he started playing in tournaments again for the first time in years and he bit by bit started climbing up until last week I was in Norway he was playing in Norway chess

along with the number one player in the world Magnus Carlson and several others who were

top in the world and a Carl for the first time since 2015 became number two in the world

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