How you should care of your inner self & win the inner game | Kamal Ravikant on ChessMood Podcast

If you take care of your inner being and keep it healthy, you’ll elevate not only your chess performance,
but also the quality of your life. People around you will be better. The world will be better.

Today’s guest is one of the brightest, smartest, deepest and happiest persons alive.
He constantly wins both games — the outer game, what the society calls success,
and the inner game that we need to win but often forget about.

Apart from building a few successful companies in Silicon Valley, then becoming
an investor and founding a VC and many other impressive things like walking 550 miles
across Spain, he wrote the bestseller book “Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It,”
which shaped thousands of people’s lives, including me and my Grandmaster friend.

And in this interview, Kamal shares how exactly we should take care of our inner
selves to have better chess and life journeys.

00:00 Intro
02:22 Why do we change our life only after we hit the bottom?
07:00 Facing our inner challenges to grow
09:52 The inner journey requires consistent work
13:37 How Kamal came up with “Love yourself”
17:36 Sidestep the brain’s resistance to loving yourself with the powerful “If” question
21:58 The simple practice to create mental loops that rewire the brain
29:00 Practicing Wim Hoff's breathing techniques at the ChessMood office
31:38 Kamal’s practical, lazy and effective 7-minute meditation
35:58 GM Avetik’s ‘winning music’ playlist that improved his performance
40:07 When a lower-rated player taught GM Avetik a life lesson
42:30 The power of visualization
43:19 Why do we struggle to apply the knowledge we learned and what to do instead?
47:05 The impact of the army on Kamal’s life
54:22 Learning combat shooting from a Seal Team 6 marine
59:07 How can lazy people improve?
1:04:33 The Grandmaster’s advice on what to do after blundering
1:07:07 What helped Kamal forgive his father
1:10:18 Self-forgiveness as a key to loving yourself
1:14:09 2 stories of self-forgiveness
1:16:49 How to fight against negative thoughts and emotions?
1:18:41 Fighting the darkness in our life
1:22:00 Does gratitude lead to happiness?
1:24:23 Using alter egos
1:29:00 The meaning of names - Do names shape destiny?
1:30:42 How Kamal keeps his ego healthy
1:33:48 Winning your inner game
1:37:57 What would Kamal do to grow in chess if he started playing today?
1:40:20 Kamal’s advice to chess players who have goals

Video credits to:
   • Self-Love Is Everything: Kamal Ravikant | ...  
   • The power of Love and Entrepreneurship  
   • Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It...  
   • The Miracle of Loving Yourself | Kamal Rav...  
   • How To Deal With Haters | James Altucher a...  
   • Why walk 500 miles (800km) across Spain? L...  

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