WEBVTT 00:01.560 --> 00:02.180 Hi there. 00:02.910 --> 00:11.850 In this lecture, I also want to take the view of a growth mindset and learning from the losses and 00:11.850 --> 00:18.960 actually in a way like in the opening, where you have to put the king safe before doing anything active, 00:19.410 --> 00:20.430 I want you. 00:21.710 --> 00:33.110 In a psychological manner to treat chess as a series of learning experiments, so put yourself beyond 00:33.110 --> 00:39.880 the fates, even if you technically get defeated, each game is like an experiment. 00:40.400 --> 00:41.750 You learn from each game. 00:42.560 --> 00:50.460 You can even record the games using special chess notation if they did and go over the games later. 00:50.480 --> 00:52.430 So each game is like a learning lesson. 00:52.880 --> 01:00.950 So if you literally kind of have that growth mindset that you're not really defeated, even if you lose, 01:01.100 --> 01:02.560 it's just a way of learning. 01:03.080 --> 01:09.320 And this is what one of the great world champions, Capablanca, said, that you learn most from your 01:09.320 --> 01:11.750 losses than you do from your wins. 01:12.500 --> 01:16.250 Then basically, you know, you're always going to be a winner. 01:16.250 --> 01:20.720 You're putting yourself beyond actual defeat in the mind. 01:20.870 --> 01:24.920 Someone that beat you is is your teacher. 01:24.920 --> 01:26.390 You learn from that game. 01:28.080 --> 01:36.330 So you might start in your infancy of chess and you play a game like this where they play before you 01:36.330 --> 01:39.480 play five, they bring their Quinnell. 01:41.890 --> 01:48.430 You bring your bishop out, they bring their bishop out and you play this and they chat my you. 01:51.130 --> 01:54.070 That's fine, you've lost, but. 01:55.410 --> 02:01.260 You learn from this loss, you learn how to defend against these early attacks, and actually you'll 02:01.260 --> 02:07.890 find you'll find out that it's not actually that great for want to do this, you have better defenses. 02:10.670 --> 02:16.370 For example, you know, if they brought out their queen like this. 02:18.430 --> 02:23.320 You can actually, you know, defend the --, and if they go like this, you defend this -- and 02:23.320 --> 02:29.200 you're ready to get more pieces developed and punished opponents and you'll find all this out later. 02:29.950 --> 02:37.150 The important thing I want to tell you her is before this journey. 02:38.650 --> 02:42.500 You need to put yourself really beyond the fact and this goes in general and chest. 02:42.520 --> 02:45.150 Don't be upset when you lose. 02:45.170 --> 02:47.110 It's just a learning experiment. 02:48.010 --> 02:55.960 Every game is like a learning experiment, if you take this scientific perspective rather than emotional, 02:56.950 --> 03:00.940 it's much better for a growth mindset where. 03:02.040 --> 03:07.440 You're investing in yourself to learn lessons, and you're not very bad going out there and for example, 03:08.190 --> 03:12.360 losing, and later there could be things on the line like you're writing. 03:13.080 --> 03:19.710 If you have a learning growth mindset, you get out on a bell and you just treat each game. 03:20.900 --> 03:30.410 To learn the learning and growth mindset is essentially putting yourself beyond the fate and, you know, 03:30.410 --> 03:32.400 I am sometimes a bad loser. 03:32.420 --> 03:41.000 I get upset and sometimes when I'm playing in club matches in the past, one important thing that I've 03:41.000 --> 03:48.650 done, which I found very, very helpful, is to start studying the game, to see where I could have 03:48.650 --> 03:49.340 improved. 03:51.890 --> 03:58.790 You know, just just trying to learn the lessons from the game rather than being focused on the fact 03:58.790 --> 04:00.680 that I might have lost it is a fact. 04:01.010 --> 04:05.710 But it's also a fact that you can learn a lesson from each game. 04:06.200 --> 04:07.780 So don't be disheartened. 04:08.210 --> 04:12.530 This is chess is a very, very interesting journey of discovery. 04:13.220 --> 04:19.000 And you learn not just about chess, but also yourself psychologically, how that also impacts the game. 04:19.010 --> 04:27.020 We've talked about the physiological phases, but also chess is usually you're playing people, people. 04:28.110 --> 04:34.350 You know, need to be strong in competitive sports to be able to handle, you know, losing with grace 04:34.380 --> 04:38.130 and in chess, especially to learn the lessons for the next battle. 04:40.180 --> 04:46.540 So try and from the outset, essentially, if you can put yourself beyond the faith, so even if you 04:46.540 --> 04:52.660 are defeated, even if you lost 10 games in a row, 20 games in a row, you go over those two games. 04:53.630 --> 04:57.730 And you learn, even if you learn just one lesson from losing 20 games in a row. 04:59.260 --> 05:06.970 You learn one lesson, then you go to another woman and maybe you start drawing one game and you lose 05:07.360 --> 05:12.440 19, then you analyze all of those games scientifically, you go to another team. 05:12.470 --> 05:22.210 All of a sudden, maybe you only lose two games and you start winning some games, even those wins. 05:22.360 --> 05:25.150 Look at those wins as privatized losses as well. 05:25.150 --> 05:29.800 And you learn from your wins and losses, even the wins actually you can learn from, but especially 05:29.800 --> 05:32.200 the losses because there's a greater motivation. 05:32.200 --> 05:37.750 I find the more painful the loss I've always found, the more painful the loss, the more I can search 05:38.350 --> 05:39.770 for things to improve my game. 05:39.790 --> 05:43.180 It's a great motivation for me because I hate losing. 05:46.060 --> 05:52.180 And if you can do this, if you can carry this growth mindset by essentially putting yourself beyond 05:52.180 --> 05:57.370 the fate and treating each game as a kind of scientific experiments, this is going to really enhance 05:57.700 --> 05:59.290 the fun of your journey. 06:02.470 --> 06:06.040 So we're talking about a longer term growth blindsides. 06:07.690 --> 06:12.400 Going over your games, learning as much as possible, especially from your losses, but even from your 06:12.400 --> 06:12.760 wins. 06:14.890 --> 06:20.490 And it's a lot about Threshold's maybe in some games you're quite close actually to drawing or winning, 06:21.580 --> 06:26.950 you've got to as you improve, you'll see that, yes, certain thresholds take you over some threshold 06:27.370 --> 06:29.670 and all of a sudden you're winning or you're drawing. 06:30.430 --> 06:31.750 So just bear that in mind. 06:32.050 --> 06:39.670 It's a positive outlook from the start of your journey, I think is important to enhance a growth mindset. 06:40.570 --> 06:42.960 It's about your internal quality. 06:43.000 --> 06:50.500 I'm a big fan of internal and external quality ratings, extrinsic that can all come later. 06:50.830 --> 06:56.260 You want your internal course, your understanding of chess to be absolutely, you know, maximum. 06:57.830 --> 07:03.500 And extrinsic stuff comes as a side effect of that, you can get, you know, such thing as a chest, 07:03.500 --> 07:03.700 right. 07:03.710 --> 07:04.560 Or whatever later. 07:05.300 --> 07:07.310 So it's a big journey. 07:07.850 --> 07:14.840 And I hope in the hope you have this kind of growth mindset of looking for games critically and learning 07:14.840 --> 07:16.680 from them for the future battles. 07:16.850 --> 07:22.790 So in that way, you literally become kind of beyond the feet in a way. 07:23.260 --> 07:26.360 OK, that's some food for thought there. 07:28.370 --> 07:30.640 And I hope you enjoy your chance as much.