he can do whatever he wants with his life, this is no dicatorship. people doing crazier things, like going 9 to 5 to a job they hate and then all of a sudden jump from a scyscraper.Life is for living, you dont have to die his death, so you shouldnt tell people how they want to live.
Sure.
We won't come to his house, burn his chess books and inoculate him with a mental disorder to make sure he won't get chess pro.
But, when you see that none in the history has ever made something when thousands have honestly tried, it might be a fair assumption to think you are not the one that will do it. That's just a fair warning : after that, if you have delusions of grandeur and that "you can do anything if you want it hard enough", that's your problem if you screw your life up.
well than you need to come up with a bigger number the world is full with people who succeeded where thousand failed. Nearly all successfull interesting people succeeded where thousand failed.
Im not saying he will make it, but if you stop there because other have failed, then you not more then 1 out of the 100 dogs that bark because another dog started barking at a shadow.
Im not saying he makes it, but how will it screw up his life more than always wondering in 20 years of what could have become. I mean its not that anyone will die trying or get cancer, no they will just live and have a life. There is no reason to believe that someone who fails gets less enjoyment of life than someone who wins but never had tried what he wanted.
I think the regret of what could have been is way bigger then the feeling of failure when you went wrong. Also you can fail in areas of life, you never heard of lawyer or doctors that ended in the street?? well i did and it happens everywere, better do what you want to do then follow conventions society wants to force on you. I mean if its love to another person all say go for it, but if its love for something everyone will say no dont do it. Why?? i think that is very narrow minded, life is too short to not try what you wanna try. At the end we all die if we failed or win.
Man , I really love your way of thinking, I think same too but the whole problem lies with money , society pressure . Sometimes, I really wish I should be born in a rich family 😂 or we should haven't live in a society where money is considered very important.
I would think this thread is a trolling, if it wasn't because once I had the same thought as OP.
I'm no one to tell you what to do. But I'm one enough to say an advice.
Mikhail Botvinnik was engineer and professional chess player at the same time. Chess grandmaster and World Chess Champion for most of 1948 to 1963.
He worked as electrical engineer.
You can do both at the same time.
Why throw your whole life only into one single path? Would you bet all your life savings into one number in a cassino? You can work everyday 8 hours in your job, and 8 hours in chess study. All weekends and vacations on chess study.
Even better: you could become security guard and practice chess 16 hours a day.
If you throw all your chances into one single possibility, you will become homeless. It will be too much preasure. One single match in every tournament will determine if you eat or not, if you live or die. The question is if you could concentrate and play with all that preasure on your mind.
Do you know how hard a professional chess player life is? Everything will depend on you. It's harder than soccer, in which you can say your team didn't play well and that's the reason you lost, but you will get paid a millionare amount anyways.
Do you know all the preasure that Bobby Fischer experienced when he had to go to the world chess championship in 1972? He was so overwhelmed that it took him days to decide if he should go. He almost doesn't get there. The match of your life. Fighting for your whole life in every match.
Chess is fun, but professional chess is not a roses path.
On the other hand, can you imagine yourself not knowing anything beyond chess in the next 10 years until you become a Grand Master?
And in 10 years you will be 40 years old.
Maybe you didn't consider all those points of view.
On the other hand, I would love to see the first person in the world that becomes World Chess Champion when he started at 30 years old. Or I would like to hear that someone, even though he/she doesn't become a champion, at least can live out of chess with only 10 years of extremely hard study.
But whenever you enter a cassino, don't bet all your life in a single number.