Hi there.
In this lecture, I also want to take the view of a growth mindset and learning from the losses and
actually in a way like in the opening, where you have to put the king safe before doing anything active,
I want you.
In a psychological manner to treat chess as a series of learning experiments, so put yourself beyond
the fates, even if you technically get defeated, each game is like an experiment.
You learn from each game.
You can even record the games using special chess notation if they did and go over the games later.
So each game is like a learning lesson.
So if you literally kind of have that growth mindset that you're not really defeated, even if you lose,
it's just a way of learning.
And this is what one of the great world champions, Capablanca, said, that you learn most from your
losses than you do from your wins.
Then basically, you know, you're always going to be a winner.
You're putting yourself beyond actual defeat in the mind.
Someone that beat you is is your teacher.
You learn from that game.
So you might start in your infancy of chess and you play a game like this where they play before you
play five, they bring their Quinnell.
You bring your bishop out, they bring their bishop out and you play this and they chat my you.
That's fine, you've lost, but.
You learn from this loss, you learn how to defend against these early attacks, and actually you'll
find you'll find out that it's not actually that great for want to do this, you have better defenses.
For example, you know, if they brought out their queen like this.
You can actually, you know, defend the --, and if they go like this, you defend this -- and
you're ready to get more pieces developed and punished opponents and you'll find all this out later.
The important thing I want to tell you her is before this journey.
You need to put yourself really beyond the fact and this goes in general and chest.
Don't be upset when you lose.
It's just a learning experiment.
Every game is like a learning experiment, if you take this scientific perspective rather than emotional,
it's much better for a growth mindset where.
You're investing in yourself to learn lessons, and you're not very bad going out there and for example,
losing, and later there could be things on the line like you're writing.
If you have a learning growth mindset, you get out on a bell and you just treat each game.
To learn the learning and growth mindset is essentially putting yourself beyond the fate and, you know,
I am sometimes a bad loser.
I get upset and sometimes when I'm playing in club matches in the past, one important thing that I've
done, which I found very, very helpful, is to start studying the game, to see where I could have
improved.
You know, just just trying to learn the lessons from the game rather than being focused on the fact
that I might have lost it is a fact.
But it's also a fact that you can learn a lesson from each game.
So don't be disheartened.
This is chess is a very, very interesting journey of discovery.
And you learn not just about chess, but also yourself psychologically, how that also impacts the game.
We've talked about the physiological phases, but also chess is usually you're playing people, people.
You know, need to be strong in competitive sports to be able to handle, you know, losing with grace
and in chess, especially to learn the lessons for the next battle.
So try and from the outset, essentially, if you can put yourself beyond the faith, so even if you
are defeated, even if you lost 10 games in a row, 20 games in a row, you go over those two games.
And you learn, even if you learn just one lesson from losing 20 games in a row.
You learn one lesson, then you go to another woman and maybe you start drawing one game and you lose
19, then you analyze all of those games scientifically, you go to another team.
All of a sudden, maybe you only lose two games and you start winning some games, even those wins.
Look at those wins as privatized losses as well.
And you learn from your wins and losses, even the wins actually you can learn from, but especially
the losses because there's a greater motivation.
I find the more painful the loss I've always found, the more painful the loss, the more I can search
for things to improve my game.
It's a great motivation for me because I hate losing.
And if you can do this, if you can carry this growth mindset by essentially putting yourself beyond
the fate and treating each game as a kind of scientific experiments, this is going to really enhance
the fun of your journey.
So we're talking about a longer term growth blindsides.
Going over your games, learning as much as possible, especially from your losses, but even from your
wins.
And it's a lot about Threshold's maybe in some games you're quite close actually to drawing or winning,
you've got to as you improve, you'll see that, yes, certain thresholds take you over some threshold
and all of a sudden you're winning or you're drawing.
So just bear that in mind.
It's a positive outlook from the start of your journey, I think is important to enhance a growth mindset.
It's about your internal quality.
I'm a big fan of internal and external quality ratings, extrinsic that can all come later.
You want your internal course, your understanding of chess to be absolutely, you know, maximum.
And extrinsic stuff comes as a side effect of that, you can get, you know, such thing as a chest,
right.
Or whatever later.
So it's a big journey.
And I hope in the hope you have this kind of growth mindset of looking for games critically and learning
from them for the future battles.
So in that way, you literally become kind of beyond the feet in a way.
OK, that's some food for thought there.
And I hope you enjoy your chance as much.