Building Yout Trigger

Extracted from The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin

Fueling up is more important than last minute cramming and at a higher level, the ability to recover will be pivotal. In a 2 week chess tournament, one of the decisive factor is a competitor's ability to sleep at night.

An appreciation for simplicity, the everyday - the ability to dive deeply into the banal and discover life's hidden richness - is where success, let alone happiness emerges.

To have success in crunch time, you need to integrate certain helathy patterns into your day-to-day life so that they are completely natural to you when the pressure is on.

Pick a routine that makes you fully present and once that is internalised, using it before any activity and a similar state of mind will emerge. Be prepared with a flexible tate of mind and a condensed routine.