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:⁠  ...