@@ -92,18 +92,24 @@ So that's what I'm going to do. > There's something magical about the fearlessness of just playing. Pure curiosity, maybe even quite a bit of ambition, but especially the absolute surrender to repeated and premeditated failure. --[enki](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=904933 "Hacker News | I've taught Go to over fifty people over the years - and i've seen this over and...") + > Go resembles life in that sense. An infant does not learn to walk by thinking about it. --[tarvaina](http://twitter.com/tarvaina/statuses/5198351345) + > When learning something, there is no substitute for doing it twenty times a day; and that no matter how much you think you have Go figured out, you probably don't. --[randrews](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=904913 "Hacker News | When I was eight years old, my father taught me to play Go...") + > Most who learn the game goes through this set of feelings --[seacreature](http://twitter.com/seacreature/statuses/5201724816 "") + > When I approach a new game, I assume it will take many hundreds (or thousands!) of plays to become truly good at it. I assume that I will play poorly for my first N games -- so, it's best to get them out of the way as quickly as possible. I try to think in terms of, "did I learn something from that loss?" -- if the answer is yes, it was still a worthwhile experience. > Nothing has ever made me feel more incompetent than trying to play Go --[xshay](http://twitter.com/xshay/statuses/5185887866 "") + > I think this is a good lesson for learning anything new. --[Locke](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=904987 "Hacker News | I've learned many abstract strategy games. I play some fairly well, others not ...") + > I have this kind of anxiety problem all the time, especially when writing new code, because the code I write might be wrong, so I end up just sitting there, not solving the problem, not thinking about the problem, but just staring. --[shrughes](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=904851 "Hacker News | I thought it was excellent. I have this kind of anxiety problem all the time, ...") --- 2009-10-20/high_anxiety.md 6617a17a932b5aa9c91fc56ab9224d05c6ba4926 Reginald Braithwaite raganwald@gmail.com http://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/commit/269479d42a36438c706fe1b90ca055f294eba858 269479d42a36438c706fe1b90ca055f294eba858 2009-10-27T08:28:10-07:00 2009-10-27T08:28:10-07:00 try breaking up the comments 0a7a312eb2c94528092c691c3a1203ee134f6c42 Reginald Braithwaite raganwald@gmail.com