Best improvement advice from Ben Finegold

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I just saw a very short video of GM Finegold giving his best advice on how to improve in chess.
Simply--play chess. Oh, of course, do tactics puzzles and study the games of the great masters and analyze your own games, etc. etc. 
But his advice cut to the core, I think, of what holds so many of us back. We buy books that we don't read. We think about ways to improve that we don't implement. We spend time fantasizing about what it would be like to be a great player. We play bots that are clearly weaker than we are because we like the feel of winning. And, to me, BIGGEST OF ALL, we get excited and motivated for a little while and then step away from chess for days or weeks (or more) at a time. We passively watch chess videos on YouTube, secure in the fantasy that we're "training," when in fact we're just watching TV. 
So my personal goal for at least the remainder of this year, and hopefully well into next year and beyond, is to remedy those flaws. Chess EVERY DAY. It might be Chernev's "Logical Chess . . " again. It might be two or three bouts of Puzzle Rush Survival. It might be two or three (no more) 10/5 games on chess.com. It might be all of those things. But it's got to be every day. It's so easy to lose whatever we've gained by hanging out in these forums and lamenting that we're not improving. Well, get out of the forums and CHESS!!

JankCold

This 100%, I need to take this advice and stop being complacent.

chessnick910

Nice