Rankings are either one person's or a group of people's opinion about 'relative' position. They are opinions, they are not facts. Facts come about from head-to-head comparison.
On the path to expertise, we must first become competent, able to meet the expected 'usual' demands of our task. Consider this:
For the first lesson, I want you to play over every column of Modern Chess Openings, including the footnotes. And for the next lesson, I want you to do it again.
- Bobby Fischer's assignment to biographer Frank Brady, who had requested chess lessons
The road to mastery is a hard, but not necessarily well-traveled one. It demands commitment, determination, discipline, faith, and patience. The Olympic gold medal skater is she who has accepted twenty-thousand falls along the way. To earn mastery, you must willingly pay the price far beyond what almost everyone else values.
"Ordinary competence comes from familiarity with a field; the competence of experts is born of intimacy." - Dr. Brett Steenbarger, Enhancing Trader Performance
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