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.
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.
Definitely! Another interesting point, that is mentioned in the conclusion is people only studying their successes potentially becoming complacent. Combining that with you own conclusion that only studying your failures might lead to demoralisation would make a good study as well!
What is the study threshold of your successes/failures that leads to complacency/disinterest? And what is the correct balance that keeps people interested while still searching for ways to improve?
Amazing article! One thing I was wondering about this week, is why don't I have a group of my good moves, alongside mistakes in my statistics spreadshit. It's so good to know, that someone else is thinking the same way, and there is even a study on that topic!
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
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.
Good points in regard to the study design. I think chess actually could be a good testing niche for such an experiment
Definitely! Another interesting point, that is mentioned in the conclusion is people only studying their successes potentially becoming complacent. Combining that with you own conclusion that only studying your failures might lead to demoralisation would make a good study as well!
What is the study threshold of your successes/failures that leads to complacency/disinterest? And what is the correct balance that keeps people interested while still searching for ways to improve?
Amazing article! One thing I was wondering about this week, is why don't I have a group of my good moves, alongside mistakes in my statistics spreadshit. It's so good to know, that someone else is thinking the same way, and there is even a study on that topic!
Thanks! Definitely sounds like a good idea to write down your best moves as well
Nice article Martin!
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