Philosophy

with the wrong mindset you will have many problems but....

The most think like this while playing go:

somday i want to reach 1dan.

Dan a goal for most players and while thinking of it, they play and play and play, learn, read go books, solve tsumego and play even more and once they don´t seem to go forward, they lose interest or get frustrated.

But is that really the way to play go?

Isn´t there some other way or believe on should follow to become better ?

Do you really want to live by the saying:" Live is a game so level up" 

I don´t think so.

I myself play go since 4 years and the first 2 years i was stuck at 10k, and as i thought i had gotten better in the first year, i lost in a tournament quite bad with the same ranking.

I didn´t level up , i didn´t even hold the ranking i had in the first place.

I wanted to quit and stop playing go, but then i thought, why should i stop my most loved hobby and sport Baduk/Go/Weiqi because i didn´t get better, just because i LOST, there is no reason to stop playing go ,was what i thought a few months later. 

I changed my way of thinking:

I don´t want to get better--> I want to become good

I don´t need to win oustanding and crush my opponent, it´s more important to learn new things about the game and try new things and learn basics to understand the game even more.

That´s my go philosophy.

I want to know more about the game itself instead of trying to get stronger just for defeating someone or getting stronger.

2 years after I changed my way of thinking i got to 1k

Don´t play for getting stronger but play for knowing more about the game.

For understanding the real thrill , which only the strongest players can understand.

In the process becoming better or worse but steadly progressing.
That´s what i think go should be about in the mental philosophical way of playing it

if you can face them head on and fight them.....

this is what can happen ;-) (win)