How to Progress in Chess and Life

People need to be made aware of their potential for perfection. Only in this way can one really make any progress.

Thoughts?

This idea is already in us, it just needs to brought again to light amidst our busy lives, so that we can (to put it in metaphorical terms) recollect our inheratince.

It already dwells in natural sound understanding

The Greeks also believed in Recollection, a natural dialectic in which one retrieves knowledge (the same word for understanding in Greek - episteme) that one has lost or "forgotten"... this idea of self-dialectic or a talk with oneself can also be seen in post-Renaissance writers such as, especially Kant.

Generally there is a truth that can't be expressed in words, and so all the philosophers and writers are striving to express the same thing in their own different words. See, as in the Prisoner's Dilemma, there are two equilibruims, one rational that can be expressed, and another which says what not to do, but can't actually say the Nash equilibrium because it goes against all reason...

Yes it is one of the infinite paradoxes of life...

In a sense you can say we can even imagine this ideal and have an idea of it because of evolution, out of necessity. Because if we didn't strive to improve ourselves, we'd quickly die so to speak!

In other words, we're evolutionally hardwired to be irrational creatures, in a sense!

In other other words, we're slaves to Love (or passion), but we're willing slaves

In fact Kant is essentially the footnotes of Plato

Basically philosophers and writers make aware that what motivates us (ie everything) doesn't really exist, but in order to bring this realization forth, they've gotta use words, like teachers

You know there was an interesting experiment https://hbr.org/2015/01/rats-can-be-smarter-than-people

here the rats did better than the Princeton students

There was a poem long ago I read by Pedro Salinas why animals are freer... because they don't use reason. No awareness

That's how texts like Buddhism work, they try to free us from the bind of reason through the power of their worded teachings

But you have to be careful because sometimes rational calculation is necessary for survival.... if you become completely lulled it might not be good.... this is really a philosophical question

Whether Intellectualism or Animalism is the way to go in life.... unfortunately the brain isn't like an on-off switch so can't have your cake and eat it too!

Worst though is to fight what you are. Whether you're under an intellectual iron grip or an animal one don't resist but accept your fate, per se

because one isn't really better than the other, it's just different... in the end we all go to the same place..

You are not alone my friend...

If you wanna be number one, you gotta aim for first place.

but nevertheless they are a part and parcel of us. that's why im saying it's a necessary fiction, for survival