It feels bad to lose. It feels bad to know that despite all the work we've done, there is always more to do. It feels bad that we will always make mistakes. How can we resolve this? The answer is very simple- never do any of those things!

If you play serious, classical chess games, you run the risk of getting very invested in the result. This is problematic because you might lose the game, and then you'd be sad, or angry. Nobody wants to be sad or angry. So make sure that if you do play any actual chess games, you are entirely uninvested in the outcome. The easiest way to do this is by volume, so I recommend cramming as many 1+0 games into a play session as possible.

Similarly, if you work on chess exercises from workbooks, you might find that you don't get all the answers correct. This is incredibly frustrating, because we want to be a good player. Good players get the answers correct. If I don't do any exercises, then it's possible I'm living in the universe where I would get the answers correct too. There's nothing to disprove this, since I'm not going to try and find out. Now I can rest easy.

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