What keeps you going?

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* Become world class guitarist.
Steve Vai had insane work ethic. Here's his training program:
http://www.picksnlicks.com/Guitar%20Lessons/Exercises/30_hr_workout/30_hr_workout_1.html
Jason Becker recorded this
https://youtu.be/76Y0l99vXno
in his teens and got ALS by 21 which put an end to his career.
He's rotting in a wheelchair now.
What you're doing with your time?

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* Become an accomplished mathematician.
You can download all the books you want from LibGen.
Here's a list:
http://4chan-science.wikia.com/wiki/Math_Textbook_Recommendations.
>>>/t/741840.
>It was not until he [Lagrange] was seventeen that he showed any taste for mathematics – his interest in the subject being first excited by a paper by Edmond Halley which he came across by accident. Alone and unaided he threw himself into mathematical studies; at the end of a year's incessant toil he was already an accomplished mathematician.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph-Louis_Lagrange

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* Become and antisemite genius who happens to play chess
>I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different. A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he's like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.
>I'm very concerned because I think the Jews want to drive the elephants to extinction because the trunk of an elephant reminds them of an uncircumcised penis. I'm absolutely serious about that... Jews are sick, they're mental cases.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bobby_Fischer
Master pawn, rook, queen, etc... endgames which then move to openings and middle games.
Find the books on Amazon then download them.
Spend some time on
https://www.chess.com/forum
to get a better idea on what you're supposed to do.

>>128661104
>What keeps you going?
Chaos, curiosity and sheer spite. Hail Eris!

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>Tinsley once claimed to have spent approximately 10,000 hours studying checkers while in graduate school. Tinsley also served as a lay preacher in the Disciples of Christ church.[3]

>In one game, Chinook [computer program], playing with white pieces, made a mistake on the tenth move. Tinsley remarked, "You're going to regret that." Chinook resigned after move 36, fully 26 moves later. The lead programmer Jonathan Schaeffer looked back into the database and discovered that Tinsley picked the only strategy that could have defeated Chinook from that point and Tinsley was able to see the win 64 moves into the future.[4][5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Tinsley

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>"That first day we did mathematics until one in the morning. I went upstairs to
bed, and he stayed downstairs in the guest room. At 4:30 A.M. I heard pots
banging in the kitchen. He kept banging them. It was his way of telling me to get
up. I stumbled downstairs about six. What were the first words out of his mouth?
Not 'Good morning' or 'How'd you sleep?', but 'Let n be an integer. Suppose k
is...'" -- Mike Plummer

Bamp.