To succeed you have to love it | NM Ben Johnson on ChessMood Podcast

ChessMood Podcast por GM Avetik Grigoryan

Notas del episodio

On Today's Episode, our guest is NM Ben Johnson, host of the famous Perpetual Chess podcast.

Apart from chess improvement and his book about it, we discuss:

- How he built the discipline to record a new episode every week for over seven years

- What he did when his motivation waned

- How he overcame his fears

- and many other things that you’ll find helpful for your chess journey.

Navigate to a particular section of the episode:

0:00 Intro

02:39 How Ben started the Perpetual Chess podcast

05:48 Ben switching to poker

09:55 How Ben keeps his discipline

22:09 Competitiveness in chess and in life

30:55 How to deal with nervousness

47:39 “Perpetual Chess Improvement” book

1:06:07 Ben learning Russian and living in St. Petersburg

Ben’s book:⁠

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