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⚡️🗣️ The difference between discipline & obsession by Magnus Carlsen ⤵︎
"The difference between me and the other kids is that they would go to chess practice, they would maybe even do their homework, but they weren't living and breathing the game in the way that I was.
I would think about it all the time—like, I'm thinking about the game while I'm sitting on this chair, I'm still analyzing a game that I played today. It never goes completely out of my mind.
I think a lot of very good chess players do that, but casual chess players? No, of course not.
I think for anybody—if you want to be great at something, you have to be obsessed with it. And yeah, it has to come from within."
"The difference between me and the other kids is that they would go to chess practice, they would maybe even do their homework, but they weren't living and breathing the game in the way that I was.
I would think about it all the time—like, I'm thinking about the game while I'm sitting on this chair, I'm still analyzing a game that I played today. It never goes completely out of my mind.
I think a lot of very good chess players do that, but casual chess players? No, of course not.
I think for anybody—if you want to be great at something, you have to be obsessed with it. And yeah, it has to come from within."