le petite tilt.

while most blog posts i made have been about myself, i wanna try to throw in something with a more general point of view. 

your personal approach of developement, learning or defining skills, let it be in poker, is very important not to loose the ground beneath your feat. imagine you are a tennis player. first day you cant even hit the stupid ball, but in a coachingvideo you might have picked up how to do this or that adaption to your serves. you should as well work on your footwork, it sucks. try to hit that backhand in another angle, oh and most definetly get a mental game coach, you will never crush the us open like this.

poker theory works the same. once you have all those answers, you dont even know what was your question anymore. you have lost the stability of knowning nothing, have lost tapping in the dark to find the next switch to get a bit more light into the hall that is your self awareness of skill. or simply knowledge. when i was younger and did not trust my own thoughts i remember me saying sth like that "answers to questions you did not ask make you become dumb". nowadays, where i have backed that sentence up with kind of a concept, i can agree with it. 

unless you know how your skill is going to develope, those information might confuse you, you wouldnt be able to defend yourself by saying something like "sorry, but i am not ready for something like that yet, lets talk about this or that - which is guiding your own learning process!). you dont need to know how your skill is going to develope, you already aim for being better than you have been. it is understood that a teacher should understand what a student needs. that is nearly impossbile. in the end a teacher is a source of income for knowledge and most likely not the best. he might be able to see some flaws. but for that he shouldnt be a teacher, but a professional himself. in poker we have that option.

one thing is for sure. it does not harm your developement, once you have understood what is happening, when somebody's good advice is not yet suiting you.

it most likely let you act with more patience to work out what your are learning at the moment. it gives you a better understanding of where you are at technically at the moment. the pressure stays at a level you can cope with. and that mentioned patience is doing you a big favour accepting not being the best right now and accept what cant be changed for now. you might as well learn much quicker like this. at least if you are an idiot like i am.

and coaching yourself kinda needs the same adjustments. you have to understand what it is like for a student to be able to get the best out of him. i read about a concept that you have to try to coach somebody what he already knows. it is the idea of "preconcepts" (dont know the english word). children in school have an idea about math, but dont really know any details. they might have an idea about what writing is, but have not done it right yet. a teacher has to make a student get a BETTER understanding of what he already has an idea of. he has to be sensetive about all that. 

in the end what i was trying to point out is, that nobody but yourself knows what is the best next step, because nobody is approaching the game the way you do for now. with your own speed, your own limited knowledge and your own flaws you might (or might not) be knowing of.

it also gives you more responsibility. which i think is more of a chance to succeed. unless you understand what a coach is for, what a coach is capable of and how you need to approach all that.

thank you

edit: bottomline is - ask your own questions