Manohar Burra

Life/Career Coach, Mentor. Seeker of Knowledge. Cricket, Science, Books Enthusiast.

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Don’t stop calculating when the forcing moves end

That’s precisely when evaluation begins

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Analysis is the walking, evaluation is the judging

Beginners good at analysis but less so at evaluation

4-sec blunders are analysis failures, Ppl never walk the road

Esp, aimless checks when winning are evaluation failures

Arrive but also ask why it’s good

Stop & ask 3 Qns!

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(Cont’d)

The 3 Qns:

1. Who’s better?
2. By how much?
3. And, why

It’s a verdict!

Analysis is the search, the tree of moves it pushes through

Evaluation is the number — the +1.54 (!)

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Analysis tells you where you’ll end up

Evaluation tells you whether that’s a good place to be

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A well-earned ending is often more memorable than stretching a universe indefinitely.

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When achievement becomes the only acceptable identity, ordinary life starts feeling like failure

Ambition in itself isnt bad

But, modern society increasingly rewards visibility over substance.

One Needs to be careful - that’s all

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You don’t build a plan around your opponent accidentally hanging a piece.

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Losses pay rent only when you extract a lesson

And the rent must be collected through one thinking error, one pattern or one change in future behaviour

Then the game has paid

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Losses are useful only when absorbed, not just endured.

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“Intuition is the work you’ve forgotten.”

It’s not magic but compressed experience.

Says @vishy64theking

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Peace won’t come from finally getting the answer we want.

It will come from eventually building a life that doesn’t depend on that answer.

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Reducing uncertainty quickly and reducing it well are not always the same thing.

Sometimes patience isn’t passive, it’s part of the experiment.

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Inner Peace eventually begins taking shape when our actions and our deepest values stop pulling in opposite directions.

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Hope is a beautiful thing.

Unbounded hope is exhausting.

Healthy hope sounds like:

“I’d be happy if ….”

Unhealthy hope sounds like:

“Part of my life is waiting until ….”

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Clarity + Grief is something that can eventually be healed from.

Ambiguity + Recurring hope is what is harder to live with.

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Keep the same clarity of thought, while becoming even more effective at delivering it

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Walking away is sometimes the strongest form of candour.

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If you wait for the next best thing, you will never enjoy the current one.

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Strong practical players win a surprising number of games from inferior positions because they continue asking difficult questions.

Where to be careful is making sure that resilience doesn’t become an excuse for sloppy play.

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Meaning isn’t measured by whether you reach the destination today. It’s measured by whether you remain faithful to the promise you’ve chosen to carry

Oh, Brook!