Meet Nick Matta #1830

In our last several +1s, we’ve been chatting about Emerson and his chess journey and how we have worked hard to preserve his intrinsic motivation by encouraging him to trust himself as he forges excellence by following his bliss.

For the record…

Once upon a time early on in Emerson’s chess journey (shortly after he got clear on the fact that he wanted to get REALLY good!) I made the mistake of trying to get him to create TOO much externally-imposed structure with his chess training.