Just as the yin-yang symbol possesses a kernel of light in the dark, and of dark in the light, creative leaps are grounded in a technical foundation. - Joshua Waitzkin

It is rarely a mysterious technique that drives us to the top, but rather a profound mastery of what may well be a basic skill set.

The path to artistic insight in one direction often involves deep study of another — the intuition makes uncanny connections that lead to a crystallization of fragmented notions.

Of course there were plateaus, periods when my results leveled off while I internalized the information necessary for my next growth spurt,