“You need find your dragons, look them in the eye, and destroy them.”
Julien Smith (The Flinch)
Magnus Carlsen won today’s Round 4 Game 2 Classical chess must-win match with Vincent Keymer on FIDE World Cup AzerBaijan 2023.
He lost to the 18 year old phenom yesterday and had to produce a win out of thin year in this highly stressful game of mind.
This game is such a grind tweets @kyle_is_lurnking.
Magnus.
He slayed his dragon, and for sure learned a bizzilion dollar lesson of ‘situational awareness and patience’ but most importantly he had a taste of overcoming the flinch on and off the chess board right on-time before the crucial matches of world cup is due to begin.
Let’s see what happens on tomorrow’s tie breaker game.
Without an exception, we also have and will most certainly come face-to-face with many dragons in our lives
- given a life’s purposeful,
- given a life’s not a garbage,
- given we’re alive in our mind & heart
and, when we did and would eventually confront one in coming future — deal with the flinch at face value and give our all to not turn the other way around.
To understand the stories of flinches, I highly recommend ‘The Flinch – By Julien Smith’.
And, as stated at Page 38, paragraph 2 in the book: Old explorers even had a phrase for it: “Here be dragons.”
Thank me later.
The idea is when you see the dragon (metaphor);
Not have fear of defeat.
Not have fear of getting lost.
Not be afraid of pain, predicaments.
Persevere!
Not for anybody, anything. But for you.
Namaste.