[BrianWall-ChessList] Patrick Carroll on Fear of Chess

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Brian Wall -
I think I am the artisan type
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Patrick Carroll



----- Forwarded message from Patrick Carroll <patrick1955carroll at yahoo.com>
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    Date: 15 Mar 2007 13:57:03 -0700
    From: Patrick Carroll <patrick1955carroll at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Chess_Improvement at yahoogroups.com
 Subject: Re: [Chess Improvement] Fear of Chess
      To: Chess_Improvement at yahoogroups.com

--- In Chess_Improvement at yahoogroups.com, "Oliver Maas"
<Oliver_Maas at ...> wrote:

 Hi,

 id like to comment on some points, although i havent got this kind
of fear of chess myself.

 I remember my first evenings at the chess club. We often played
Blitz games, and i usually
 lost against 10 or more opponents, often resulting in the last rank
in the table, but i didnt worry
> since i told myself "well im new here and its normal. But i like to
play..."

> In fact, i liked playing so much (and i played so often), that i
didnt have the time to worry
> about my losses :) . . .

This reminds me of something I read in the book "Please Understand Me
II" by David Keirsey (http://www.keirsey.com).  Keirsey, a
psychologist, says there are basically four kinds of people.  One
kind he calls the Artisan, and he says this kind of person plays
games just for the sake of play -- not to win, not to improve, but
just for the sheer love of playing.  And surprisingly or not, the
Artisan is usually the kind of player who ends up being a virtuoso at
whatever he takes up (be it chess, a musical instrument, a race car,
or whatever).  He just practices a lot -- more than other types of
people are willing or able to do -- and if practice doesn't make
perfect, it sure gets a person further than most anything else.

The Artisan also has a sanguine (cheerful, confident, and optimistic)
attitude toward life and everything he does.  So he's the least
likely to be held back by things like fear or self-doubt.

Obviously I'm not an Artisan.  My temperament is called the Idealist,
which partly means I'm the kind of person who tries to get by on
dreaming or wishful thinking.

--Patrick

PS  I've been running a Yahoo! group on the subject of Keirseyan
temperament theory since 2003.  It's called Temperament Talk, and you
can look it up in the Yahoo!Groups directory (or search
under "Personality").



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Brian Wall -
I think I am the artisan type
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Patrick Carroll



----- Forwarded message from Patrick Carroll <patrick1955carroll at yahoo.com>
-----
    Date: 15 Mar 2007 13:57:03 -0700
    From: Patrick Carroll <patrick1955carroll at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Chess_Improvement at yahoogroups.com
 Subject: Re: [Chess Improvement] Fear of Chess
      To: Chess_Improvement at yahoogroups.com

--- In Chess_Improvement at yahoogroups.com, "Oliver Maas"
<Oliver_Maas at ...> wrote:

 Hi,

 id like to comment on some points, although i havent got this kind
of fear of chess myself.

 I remember my first evenings at the chess club. We often played
Blitz games, and i usually
 lost against 10 or more opponents, often resulting in the last rank
in the table, but i didnt worry
> since i told myself "well im new here and its normal. But i like to
play..."

> In fact, i liked playing so much (and i played so often), that i
didnt have the time to worry
> about my losses :) . . .

This reminds me of something I read in the book "Please Understand Me
II" by David Keirsey (http://www.keirsey.com).  Keirsey, a
psychologist, says there are basically four kinds of people.  One
kind he calls the Artisan, and he says this kind of person plays
games just for the sake of play -- not to win, not to improve, but
just for the sheer love of playing.  And surprisingly or not, the
Artisan is usually the kind of player who ends up being a virtuoso at
whatever he takes up (be it chess, a musical instrument, a race car,
or whatever).  He just practices a lot -- more than other types of
people are willing or able to do -- and if practice doesn't make
perfect, it sure gets a person further than most anything else.

The Artisan also has a sanguine (cheerful, confident, and optimistic)
attitude toward life and everything he does.  So he's the least
likely to be held back by things like fear or self-doubt.

Obviously I'm not an Artisan.  My temperament is called the Idealist,
which partly means I'm the kind of person who tries to get by on
dreaming or wishful thinking.

--Patrick

PS  I've been running a Yahoo! group on the subject of Keirseyan
temperament theory since 2003.  It's called Temperament Talk, and you
can look it up in the Yahoo!Groups directory (or search
under "Personality").


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