Really on the fence about how long it takes to get strong starting from zero

Are you familiar with the term “diminishing returns”?

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Of course but they begin at different levels for everyone

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It’s all in the mind, you know.
I didn’t start taking Go semi-seriously until I was 61. At that time, I was about 10k on KGS (probably equivalent to 12k here on OGS). It’s taken me about 10 years to get from 12k to where I am now (6k/5k OGS), and I’ve had a lot of fun and made some good friends doing it. What’s so special about getting to shodan?

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I was reminded of this again because someone “liked” my comment.

66 meanwhile.

Meanwhile … I’ve been 5k for a a while, scratched 4k for less than 24 hrs, and then quickly went back to 5k, 6k, 7k, and, very shortly, 8k, 7k, 6k, now back at 7k again.

Overall I may well be on my decline :man_shrugging:

But hey, I still know my name, and I still know where my front end is, and where my back end is also, so …

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