Habits like "getting too carried away by the possibility that we might be right," might be much deeper for adults.
I seem to be in a cycle where I hit bottom, then re-discover this problem--a kind of thought-process problem. So, next, I work on it diligently and rise again slowly. However, after some success, I tend to forget it again. But the bad habit never went away. Predictably, I fall again.
There, at the bottom, I rediscover.... ah! somebody stop me!
There is at least one reason why this is so different with chess than real life. In real life, I often rely on input from other people before making an important decision. But in the solo moments of a single move, we have to develop this alternate role of falsifying our choice--and quickly, efficiently.
I seem to be in a cycle where I hit bottom, then re-discover this problem--a kind of thought-process problem. So, next, I work on it diligently and rise again slowly. However, after some success, I tend to forget it again. But the bad habit never went away. Predictably, I fall again.
There, at the bottom, I rediscover.... ah! somebody stop me!
There is at least one reason why this is so different with chess than real life. In real life, I often rely on input from other people before making an important decision. But in the solo moments of a single move, we have to develop this alternate role of falsifying our choice--and quickly, efficiently.
@Inter-temporal said in #2:
> Habits like "getting too carried away by the possibility that we might be right," might be much deeper for adults.
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> I seem to be in a cycle where I hit bottom, then re-discover this problem--a kind of thought-process problem. So, next, I work on it diligently and rise again slowly. However, after some success, I tend to forget it again. But the bad habit never went away. Predictably, I fall again.
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> There, at the bottom, I rediscover.... ah! somebody stop me!
>
> There is at least one reason why this is so different with chess than real life. In real life, I often rely on input from other people before making an important decision. But in the solo moments of a single move, we have to develop this alternate role of falsifying our choice--and quickly, efficiently.
Thanks for reading! I quite like your observation about having to make decisions alone during chess and how this differs from many other real-world situations. A grad student I'm working with just wrapped up a study looking at collaboration during chess puzzle solving and we're interested in looking at how working together vs. on your own affects learning during tactical training. Obviously you still can't bring a friend to comment on your game, but in the long term it would be neat to try and examine whether or not there are effects on individual play from practicing with partners to offer different perspectives.
> Habits like "getting too carried away by the possibility that we might be right," might be much deeper for adults.
>
> I seem to be in a cycle where I hit bottom, then re-discover this problem--a kind of thought-process problem. So, next, I work on it diligently and rise again slowly. However, after some success, I tend to forget it again. But the bad habit never went away. Predictably, I fall again.
>
> There, at the bottom, I rediscover.... ah! somebody stop me!
>
> There is at least one reason why this is so different with chess than real life. In real life, I often rely on input from other people before making an important decision. But in the solo moments of a single move, we have to develop this alternate role of falsifying our choice--and quickly, efficiently.
Thanks for reading! I quite like your observation about having to make decisions alone during chess and how this differs from many other real-world situations. A grad student I'm working with just wrapped up a study looking at collaboration during chess puzzle solving and we're interested in looking at how working together vs. on your own affects learning during tactical training. Obviously you still can't bring a friend to comment on your game, but in the long term it would be neat to try and examine whether or not there are effects on individual play from practicing with partners to offer different perspectives.