Bobby Fischer and the one track mind
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GPBear
The Tape Crusader
bobby fischer went crazy because his mother lied about who his father was, and only told him the truth after the guy died when he was 9.
moral of the story: don't fukk with your kids, or else they'll become great masters of something and then use their status to take credit for themselves and completely wipe you out from their history out of tremendous spite
moral of the story: don't fukk with your kids, or else they'll become great masters of something and then use their status to take credit for themselves and completely wipe you out from their history out of tremendous spite
JahFocus CS
Get It How You Get It
I don't think that is true. What about the greatest athletes, musicians, artists, etc. who are obsessive about their craft? You don't necessarily go crazy from that intense focus. It is obviously taxing, though, to varying degrees on different people.
watch the documentary bobby fischer against the world to understand him better.
Piff Perkins
Veteran
Searching For Bobby Fisher is a dope movie.
nothing to do with his childhood. he started exposing the govt and like anyone who exposes corruption they turn them "crazy".
TheDarceKnight
Veteran
Maybe. Focusing on one skill by definition limits your ability to master other skills due to time requirements. Most things take thousands of hours to get great at, and 10,000 hours is a common hourly figure that's thrown around (from the book Outliers), but several studies have suggested that number isn't real at all. One thing that's true is that anything can become an unhealthy addictionIt;s great to have passions, or even lose yourself in them, but not to the point where it's unhealthy.
I was planning to ask Josh Waitzkin about this. He's the kid from the movie (not the actor, but the actual chess player.) He's grown up now and helps run the academy of the best submission grappler/Brazilian Jiu Jitsu athlete ever, Marcelo Garcia. If he was up there when I visited, I was planning on asking him if a chance opened up. Why he stopped chess, but stayed in similar fields, etc.
Waitzkin doesn't play as much chess anymore, and is into grappling/Jiu-Jitsu, and has some other interests as well. I know he's not Bobby, but he had a singular drive in much the same way. I think it's interesting that his current pursuits are still very similar and cerebral.
I have so many interests that sometimes I'm frustrated that I only have one life to pick from them, because i know I can't realistically dive into everything the way that I'd like to.
I was planning to ask Josh Waitzkin about this. He's the kid from the movie (not the actor, but the actual chess player.) He's grown up now and helps run the academy of the best submission grappler/Brazilian Jiu Jitsu athlete ever, Marcelo Garcia. If he was up there when I visited, I was planning on asking him if a chance opened up. Why he stopped chess, but stayed in similar fields, etc.
Waitzkin doesn't play as much chess anymore, and is into grappling/Jiu-Jitsu, and has some other interests as well. I know he's not Bobby, but he had a singular drive in much the same way. I think it's interesting that his current pursuits are still very similar and cerebral.
I have so many interests that sometimes I'm frustrated that I only have one life to pick from them, because i know I can't realistically dive into everything the way that I'd like to.
Suicide King
#OldBlack
I think he had a nervous breakdown. Not sure why, he had it all, but then again Martin Lawrence and Mariah Carey had nervous breakdowns. Him being too eccentric is probably why once he had a nervous breakdown, he had a hard time becoming grounded.
"Burn baby buuuuuuuuuuurn"Bobby Fischer R.I.P
No, focusing on one thing does not make you crazy. Virtually everyone who is successful on a world level has an obsessive focus on their skill. Fischer just happened to also be crazy. Usually society makes allowances for successful crazy people. If Fischer was a factory worker no one would wonder if assembly work made him crazy. He simply would have been fired and on the streets. The mathematician John Nash was mentally ill and his colleagues simply accepted him as is. All they cared about was the math.
Laszlo Polgar studied geniuses and came to the conclusion that geniuses are not born but trained and educated. He advertised for a wife who would agree to raise geniuses. Laszlo and his wife homeschooled and taught their three daughters chess, foreign languages, and high-level math. Sofia became an international master and woman grandmaster and both Susan and Judit became grandmasters. As far as I know, none are mentally ill.
Laszlo Polgar studied geniuses and came to the conclusion that geniuses are not born but trained and educated. He advertised for a wife who would agree to raise geniuses. Laszlo and his wife homeschooled and taught their three daughters chess, foreign languages, and high-level math. Sofia became an international master and woman grandmaster and both Susan and Judit became grandmasters. As far as I know, none are mentally ill.
Bomberman
Like a C4.
Wow not even with any attempt at being sarcastic, but that sounds like a dramatic comeback. What'd be the equivalent of that in the sports world? Probably if a #1 team were to come back from 3-0 in the finals against the #2 team?
Edit: nevermind, Fischer pretty much bodied him after the first two games.
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