How Feelings Make Us Smarter
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This is Hidden Brain, I'm Shankar Vedanta. In October nineteen sixty seven, the world's greatest chess mines gathered in Seuss, Tunisia, to face off at the Interzonal Tournament, The high stakes gateway to the world chess championship. The early games were dominated by the American prodigy Bobby Fisher. He was a twenty four year old grandmaster, with an IQ rumored to be at the genius level of one hundred and eighty.
He was the favourite to win it all. But despite his overwhelming lead, The tournament quickly spiraled into a masterclass in self-sabotage. Bobby Fisher issued a series of escalating demands regarding his playing schedule. When organizers refuse to rearrange the event to suit him,
He walked out. Withdrawing from the tournament while in first place, and throwing away years of work in a single fit of frustration. The walkout was a window into a profound emotional ineptness. That lived right alongside Bobby Fisher's brilliance.
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