If you've been obsessed with playing online chess for a week.
And then, for the next week, you're obsessed with turning wood.
In the following week you can think of nothing else than to cook Spanish cuisine.
And then, a week later, you forgot all that and are suddenly enthusiastic about cross-country skiing. You probably won't get very far.
Sure, in the first few days you will be encouraged by your progress, but you will never become elite.
The reality is that you will probably never get very good.
Size requires the obsession to be sustained for many years.
Practice the basics.
Learning the trade from the greats who have gone before.
Reach a frustrating plateau for a while and then stick around until you break through.
Ignore the distractions of other seemingly attractive options in order to focus on your true obsession.
Don't look around for something else.
Stick with it.
So:
Laden …
