Create habitual thinking patterns

One hundred days of Adult Chess Improvement #40

How do you develop good thinking habits?

For example, imagine that you have identified that you tend to focus on your own plans and overlook the threats and ideas of your opponent. 

An unusual approach might be to start talking to yourself. Aloud. Obviously this is something you can only during your online games. But it might be a novel way to cement the habit of first considering why your opponent made the move he did.

Perhaps you will appear, well, mad. But to whom? 

And anyway, adult chess improvement is nothing if not  a little crazy.

My daily study schedule has been temporarily suspended. Read into that what you will.

The updated mistakes log:

A Chess Mistakes

A1 Knowledge 

I missed a clever quiet move at the end of a forcing line**

I missed the point of the puzzle*

A2 Skill  

Miscalculated a pawn ending ******

B Mental Errors

B1 Thinking 

I treated a capture as if it were a forced move *

I didn't calculate through to the end ******

Difficulty in visualising a position during analysis**

I didn't consider all the attacking options - fixated on one tactical idea******

I didn't determine all the candidate moves *

I didn't look for my opponent's threat

I didn't consider all the defensive responses - I missed interposing a piece***

I didn't consider all the defensive responses - I didn't analyse all escape squares*

B2 Psychology 

I played a move too quickly without checking all available replies ********

I got carried away with my "solution" *