Oh. Sorry for the inaccurate correction. This Heisman guy must have been a bit of an idiot to give something so simple such a missleading name.
Haha at cognitive dissonance. Don't take it so personally.
Actually he's a well respected author and trainer, having written well received books and a ton of useful articles at chesscafe.com over the last 10 years or so aimed at helping beginners improve.
Making a threat and hoping your opponent doesn't see it is useful advice for a beginner on what not to do, I agree. Playing a move and, for example, assuming a capture, recapture, or some other unforced reaction while ignoring important moves is a mistake that creeps in many more player's games.
the tactics problems will definetly help you but you cant be good at chess even with lots of tactics if u naturally suck, lets say you arent very logical u dont have patience to think ahead u are scared to play the out of the ordinary moves, then yeah ull hit a rating wall at 1300 even with lots of tactics