The Titanic Syndrome 🚢

If you are very engaged in the online chess community you will be sold many new ideas and products every day.

I have noticed one thing. I’m not getting bombarded with ideas about how to improve for the first time in years.

Constantly being offered new ideas on how to improve or new openings to try out might actually have slowed me down since.. I jump ship. We could call this behavior the Titanic syndrome and it has 6 stages:

1. You buy a course, subscribe to a service, make a new training plan You are excited about this new method/product you just bought! 200+ elo here I come💪🏻

2. The honeymoon phase Everything is great and exciting. You enjoy working with the material and find it highly interesting!

3. The I-can-get-through-this phase You start to feel resistance or hit an iceberg and it gets harder to stick to the training. But you are sure that you can power through.

4. You then hear about this magical new book/course, that will solve all your problems! You start reading reviews and asking people if they enjoyed it

5. The despair phase You start to convince yourself that you are wasting your time with your current training material.

6. You decide to let go and buy the new book/course The arguments for switching to the new material are now so strong and the current material is not going to help you anyway, so you decide to let go…

Who can relate? Or is it just me?

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Best,
Martin