Here is the thing, making a statement to tell one’s self not to make mistakes is the first step to fixing the mistake, but first a person has to admit that each body of the spider that represents mistakes that have far reaching tentacles that affect other knowledge based information related to said mistake that would represent knowledge with no ability to perform at the table in the moment because of the absence of intelligence
Conscious competence, this is the ability to recognize the mistake that just happened or is about to happen. However in the moment the brain’s conscious thought is shut down and not allowing unconscious competence that would show mastery about the knowledge that demonstrates the ability with intelligence in the moment from the body of the spider that represents the knowledge learned, but until this step is reached even though, a person might have the answer, but the path to the answer is not clear? Or a person might have a general path about the question or mistake, but no clear answer?
Unconscious competence cannot be achieved because you do not know what you do not know as of yet. Unconscious competence demonstrates the mastery of knowledge learned with new found intelligence of abilities that is demonstrated at the table in the moment that before this moment was not yet achieved or was not clear if this was the path, and writing posts in forums demonstrates mastery of the knowledge away from the table; however the two parts of mastery are separate but not equal. However, each of the two parts are required for the player to see small gains with reference points in the learning process when the player thinks they achieved mastery but might still need additional work when reverting back to conscious competence in the moment at the table.
Journaling thoughts about the situation, taking additional notes, talking to others that are better than the player that is trying to get better are some paths, and posting in forums are some examples, that I have used and still use to this day. Punishing a player, rewarding a player based on play will put a bandage on the problem but is has been my experience that any bandage is a delay for the player in the long run because of the delay of getting to the point of origin, and the root of the problem. I use to avoid making mistakes because my ego said “I will choose not to make a mistake and only learn for the front end of my bell curve that represents my “A” game.”
My ego was saying I am above making a mistake within the vastness of poker. How absurd is that statement? The backend of my bell curve represents my mistakes, my C- game, then attempting to fix them one by one will get to the root or the body of the spider, I then challenged myself after seeing small increments of gains the represents change in my game from studying the mental side of poker to get the point of origin of future, or uncovering past mistakes from past knowledge gains.
Journaling, being honest with myself, bad days, good days, helping yourself is rewarding when seeing small gains from knowledge, but knowledge is double edge sword because without intelligence each time knowledge is added the next process of additional work to demonstrate new abilities in the moment at the table needs to be achieved otherwise, each time the next step is not achieved the person then will have shortcoming because of having knowledge only with the absence of ability, intelligence from new knowledge, the next step has to be achieved that would demonstrate new intelligence from new knowledge this step in the long run has to be seen with small gains in a person’s “A”game from fixing the backend of a person’s game. I hope you have success in your journey, and glad to have met you as well.