Now he is off to jiu-jitsu. So what does Josh say is the greatest thing ever happened to him? Believe it or not, he says, "Losing my first national chess championship, because it helped me avoid many of the psychological traps." The key trap that Josh avoided was believing that he was special, that he was smarter than other people, and that he didn't have to work hard. He could have thought of himself as a prodigy, but he doesn't think that he has extraordinary intelligence. He says, "The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability,