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On focussing

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Maybe you noticed the new page „goal setting“, i created it about 2 or 3 weeks ago, and i now realize that my plans on how many books i want to finish soon… are not very good.
I’m reading a book of Leo Babauta (yes, the minimalism guy) at the moment, and he explains: to manage to reach your goals, you should focus on one thing at a time, putting all other „todos“ aside…
But often people are not sure which one of their todos or goals is most important… so they try to do all things at a time, managing allmost none.
Here, what my „books i want to finish“ section was looking like:

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Now… what is the main thing?! My biggest goal at the moment is to become strong at L&D and tesuji but in order to study „tesuji“ i feel it is good to first to become good (or at least „better“) at L&D.
As BengoZen on his blog was pointing out recently, maybe it is better to study tesuji to become stronger, but while i have serious weaknesses regarding to L&D i think it would be like „building a house of sand“ if i focus on tesuji now.

So… i will focus on „Life and Death“ by Davies and will set a new goal when i finished that book.

  • PericlesBaduk

    One book per week ? that’s too much ^^ just take one you like, and read it 10 times, until you are able to spot all the key points in diagrams and solve exercises with just a glance ^^ after that, pick another book 🙂 Informations contained in a single go book are so numerous and so hard to apply in real games already… reading so many will only hinder your improvement, imo.

    • http://truthandgo.blogspot.de/ Eyecatcher

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    • http://truthandgo.blogspot.de/ Eyecatcher

      I totally got your point, that’s why i was changing my mind on this… but inthink if it is for example „life and death“ by James Davies i think it works well together with another book, on the opening and fundamentals, like „fundamental principles of go“ … the main thing i was thinking about was that it should be one book which is the main book, the one that i was deciding to read from beginnning to end.
      Thnx for leaving a comment. By the way, i love your baduk blog 😉

  • http://www.bengozen.com/ Ben

    I would have to agree with Pericles on the one book a week. It’s pretty much mandatory if you’re trying to do a lot of book reviews, but bad for studying.

    Also, based on what I’ve noticed in your games, it’s not that your life and death skills need work. In fact, your life and death skills are probably adequate as it is; but the problem is that you consistently leave weak groups and rush to start fights that end up in life and death situations. For example, instead of taking a base, you’ll try to attack first and then realize you’re the one being attacked and dying.

    If you secure your groups more consistently, I think you’ll find that you won’t be doing as much life and death as you have been in your recent games. Just my thoughts though.

    • http://truthandgo.blogspot.de/ Eyecatcher

      Yeah, totally, maybe my „goal setting list“ was giving a wrong impression, i allready read quite a bit of the mentioned books, it`s not like i was planning to read 1 bool per weak, more „more books simultaniously“ … but at the moment, as i said, i focused mainly on L&D by DAvies…
      And yes, i keep playing tenuki too much, and with that my groups become weak… but the thing with L&D is somehow something i really want to learn, even apart from my actual games… i want to be able to solve thoose 4 kyu or even 1 Dan tsumegos 😀 I`m quite ambitious when it comes to L&D… but i think i`m not talented … even untalented for that, so it is therefore yeah, a way to overcome one self 🙂 Hope you get my point…

      • http://www.bengozen.com/ Ben

        If you’re motivated to learn life and death, that’s a completely different story. I definitely think one should study whatever it is they are interested in. That’s the best way to get better. I just wanted to make sure you didn’t think you needed to learn it based on your games. Good luck!

        • http://truthandgo.blogspot.de/ Eyecatcher

          I think it’s a bit of both, i started to do it, because i thought my games urgently need it and/or i just was quite sure that this will help my games… but then i just wanted to climb that mountain 😉

          • http://www.bengozen.com/ Ben

            Best of luck on that climb!