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I don't know if we talked about it before, but the um, the the chess master.
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So, I was really hooked on chess. My father, uh, my father taught me how to play chess.
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And he taught me I was probably eight.
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And he trained me for four years, and I was 12 the first time I beat him at a game of chess.
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And once I beat him, he never played me again.
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I loved it and I started training.
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Jada got a grandmaster, Maurice Ashley, who's the first black grandmaster.
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And she got him to come and teach me for three days.
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So, he taught me this thing, he said, 'So listen.'
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He says, 'When you look at a chessboard, here's what I want you to do.'
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He said, 'In your mind, when you look at a position, put the pieces wherever you want them.'
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Pick 'em up and in your mind and put 'em where you want 'em. Where do you wish they were?
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Right? And I was like, 'Well, yeah, but it can't go.' He's like, 'That's the trick of your mind.' I used to watch that all the time with people fighting Mike Tyson, they were walking into the ring defeated. They were already defeated.
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I think it was Mike's first fight out of jail, he fought a guy, you know, big dude.
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Named Pete McNeilly. For Pete McNeilly, this was his shot at everything.
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The bell rings and he charges across the ring and throws 10 haymakers at Mike like nobody I had ever seen.
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Right? And I'm like, 'Yes! Exactly!'
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Take your shot! That's your shot!
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He burned everything in the first 60 seconds and then Mike caught him.
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If you say in your mind, 'I want this.' Oh no, it can't. You're done.
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You're dead. You're you're training yourself to not even be able to imagine what you want.
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How can you stop it in your mind? Your mind has to be the wildest, freest place where you have everything you've ever dreamed.
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Jaden said a thing. Jaden ran up to me after the jump.
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And I'd never seen this look in his eyes. He said, 'Dad, I now understand the difference between me and you.'
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You always have one more go.
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People get to their limit.
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And he said, 'When the helicopter took off, I was at my limit.'
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Right? He's like, 'I would have said no, put it down.'
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He said, 'But you had one more go.' Your mental and emotional limits are way before your actual limit.
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So you always have to keep a stash of one more go.
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Your own mind stops you in places that the world is going to move out of your way.
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That's why I love the line in Pursuit of Happiness.
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Don't ever let somebody tell you.
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You can't do something.
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Not even me.
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People can't do something themselves, they want to tell you you can't do it.
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You want something, go get it.
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Period.
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Put the pieces wherever you want them.
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Don't start by telling yourself what it can't be, what it can't. Let your mind go fully to the impossible dream of where they could be.
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Put 'em where you want 'em, and now one move at a time you work backwards to figure out how to get there and it's way easier.
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Put the pieces where you want 'em. Right? I'm like, 'That's that is strong, man.'
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That is strong.
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