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Govardhan's avatar

Wonderful article.

A simple thing but hardly popped up before. From childhood we're most likely programmed to lookup on the mistakes first than what we are good at. Similarly we take Chess wins granted. The Chess losses are hard and we want to fix *those* mistakes but we can't - creating spiral bind.

A holistic approach with focusing from all angles regardless of result - perhaps best method to review games [and many other things in life and career!].

I can feel that I am experimenting this in - Chess game review [it's long due!], Journaling [occasional one] and Work [Sprint cycles - especially retrospectives - already being done sometimes] -- from now.

Thank you

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Sebastian K. Lidström's avatar

Focusing only on your mistakes can be pretty demoralising. I'd convinced myself to focus only on my mistakes because blundering your queen is significant enough to warrant that kind of focus, however noticing a good queen move would be just as important!

I haven't looked at the study yet, however it would have been good to have a group learn only from their successes to see how they compare, and any good scientist should also have a control group, to see how they soldiers, or chess players, would improve at the task simply from doing it again.

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