Tami wrote:it`s okay to be self-centred in your own journal, isn`t it?
It's ok, and if you insist, only you write here and you learn nothing, only we learn from you:)
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No. (Are you surprised that your study aims meet also different opinions?)
like to share my thoughts about the books I have read.
Great, but do you expect everybody to take your opinions on books as deserving no discussion?
I cannot believe Robert actually has his entire system consciously present in his mind while he plays.
Ok, let me say 99%. 1% I forget and need to look up from time to time. Concerning "consciously": most of it as references to "storage addresses" somewhere in my brain. It is important to be able to seek every part of the knowledge system when needed - not to have at any time a full picture with all the details of principles etc. in front of my mental eyes.
Whose working memory is capable of such a thing?
Every brain works like this, but not everybody has the courage to learn enough explicit knowledge:)
He must have an unconscious mechanism that causes the appropriate principles or shapes or tesuji or whatever to come to mind in response to the situation at hand.
A conscious set of mechanisms.
He must have internalised much of what he knows, and made it automatic. Otherwise it would be simply impossible to play under any time limits.
No. Think of my knowledge in my brain to be ordered like a dynamic dictionary. I see the TOC immediately, but I need to use the TOC to look up whatever is relevant. The TOC has levels of structure, and this allows fast or even very fast access to every needed knowledge. Time limits are a problem only where my knowledge has to refer to and apply complex thinking such as reading in unknown situations.
The only other possibility is that he has a truly incredible mind that can hold all its knowledge in its consciousness without pause.
I am not a savon with a photographic memory. See above for how I do it.
I think you should consciously try to apply new things you learn, and try to find the right idea for the situation.
Exactly. That's what I do. The better case of to have the idea already stored, the worse case is having to invent an idea at the moment when needing it. The problem is not creativity but needed time for thinking to invent something.
In fact, I believe learning is all about changing your mind, because really that is what learning is, when you think about it - you are making a permanent change in the structure of your brain.
Sure.
If you think you`re always right, that`s a danger,
and if you think you`ve found inviolable truths, then that`s a danger. If you think X principle must always take precedence over Y principle and that Z principle is always correct under XX circumstances, then you`re going to be setting yourself for severe mental turmoil when you encounter a situation in which such rigid thinking fails.
As is it a danger to reject to possibility for proven truths, which happen to be always right.
Again, it seems much wiser to play the position on its own merits and not to try to force your own system onto it.
I do not see the conflict you are trying to construct. One's own system should be open for taking every position's merits as input.
If you think your personal system is a sure-fire winning strategy, and that you can operate like some sort of computer grinding the position up in the mill of your program, then you`re only setting yourself up for a huge disappointment.
Rather it is an excitement to further develop the system where it is still insufficient.
what are you trying to get me to say, Robert? Do you want me to take up your system like some sort of super-duper-power-checklist? Do you think that would turn me or anybody else into a much better player? Or does it bother you in some way that I think
1) It bothers me when you make statements in the direction "knowledge is no good, now I try the intuition only path".
2) My checklist AFA written down is far from complete. Dozens of further books are needed. Until then, verbally floating around principles can be at least a partial substitute for explicit knowledge.
3) Knowledge like the one I write about can make everybody a much better player if a) he still does not know related knowledge and b) he is not fundamentally opposed to investing effort in this learning style.
4) As somebody who you seem to accept both knowledge and subconscious insight, you should, IMO, in fact seek as much of both as possible.
5) I am not trying to get you to say something specific. You choose your words. At the same time, see the other points.
And why me? I`m still a nobody
You express opinions that, in my opinion, are controversial and deserve discussion. You are the 10,001st go player with whom I have an intense discussion, and you ask why you?;) I discuss with everybody who chooses to discuss something interesting in public. You would be a nobody if you kept all your discussion to a private chat.
