Unlike my previous challenges, this one was near impossible. Then, through a sequence of random events, I was offered the chance to sit down with the world chess champion Magnus Carlsen in Hamburg, Germany for an in-person chess game.Īnd so, this became my twelfth and final challenge: With a little over one month of preparations, could I defeat world champion Magnus Carlsen at a game of chess? I landed a standing backflip, learned to draw realistic portraits, solved a Rubik’s Cube in 17 seconds, played a five-minute improvisational blues guitar solo, held a 30-minute conversation in a foreign language, built the software part of a self-driving car, developed musical perfect pitch, solved a Saturday New York Times crossword puzzle, memorized the order of a deck of cards in less than two minutes (the threshold to be considered a grandmaster of memory), completed one set of 40 pull-ups, and continuously freestyle rapped for 3 minutes. For the first eleven months, I succeeded at each of the challenges: On November 1, 2016, I started a year-long project, challenging myself to master one expert-level skill every month.
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