If you don't know where you make your mistakes, that's your worst mistake: not knowing where your mistakes are at.
I take the time to look at my videos after a fight to see not what I did right but what I did wrong, to learn from those mistakes.
If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong.
A good player who loses at chess is genuinely convinced hat he has lost because of a mistake, and he looks for this mistake in the beginning of his game, but forgets that there were also mistakes at ever step in the course of the game, that none of his moves was perfect. The mistake he pays attention to is conspicuous only because his opponent took advantage of it.
I've been trying to figure out what mistakes I'm making defensively as far as help defensive stuff.
Man, it literally starts from after the game. I get every at-bat sent to me from the game. I'll go home, I'll watch every at-bat, kind of break down the game, kind of see, OK, what did I do? Why'd I miss this pitch? Why'd I hit that pitch?
The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.
The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than your own.
The problem I've always discovered in my own work when this kind of thing happens when you hit the wall is there's almost always a reason. You've almost always made a mistake in the initial conception of the project. You misapprehended something or you thought something would work and now you're three quarters on the way through and you see that it doesn't work.
The loss was not bad luck. It was bad analysis.
I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.
