I think there is a reasonable case that go teaches certain useful skills beyond ‘just’ providing generic brain excersize. You have to know which groups to fight for and which to abandon, you have to prioritise, you have to avoid becoming fixated on any one part of the board. ‘Play urgent moves before big moves’ is good life advice.
‘Play urgent moves before big moves’ is not so much what I’m talking about. Go strategy suggests that attacking weak positions directly is a bad idea.
In Go power doesn’t get used to bluff. You continue to build power and if you are strong enough your opponent has to sacrifice a few stones because it’s not worth to defend them.
China’s idea with Taiwan isn’t to take it in a bloody war. It’s idea is to get enough power that Taiwan has no other choice than to come back. Chinese foreign policy is different than US foreign policy.
Poker has no notion of aji keshi and a lot of people in the west don’t use a concept like aji keshi in strategic conflicts. I’m not even aware of a good word in the Oxford dictionary for aji keshi.
I don’t know about strategy behind Diplomacy but given that I have never read a book about Diplomacy strategy that explains why I don’t know.
If you have never learned Go then given the knowledge of Go rules you wouldn’t come up with the concept of aji keshi yourself and see that it’s important in Go.
Politicians are going to need to make decisions under stress, and deal with stressed people.
If I have a high stakes negotiation then I can usually safely assume that the other person is stressed because he cares about the outcome of the negotiation.
If he is on the other hand stressed because his wife send him an SMS right before the negotiation that she wants to divorce and he spends all the time thinking about the SMS instead of focusing on the negotiation then he becomes hard to read. Especially if you don’t know about the SMS that person get’s very hard to model.
If I do hypnosis and say a wrong word then the tension in the person I’m hypnotising rises. I perceive that change in body tonus and can change course. That helpful as long as the person doesn’t get suddenly tense for reasons that have nothing to do with my interaction with him.
As long as I’m having a decent mental model of the other person and perceive body language I can sometimes do well as far as mind reading goes. On the other hand I lose that if there are stress factors I can’t decently model.
‘Play urgent moves before big moves’ is not so much what I’m talking about. Go strategy suggests that attacking weak positions directly is a bad idea. In Go power doesn’t get used to bluff. You continue to build power and if you are strong enough your opponent has to sacrifice a few stones because it’s not worth to defend them.
China’s idea with Taiwan isn’t to take it in a bloody war. It’s idea is to get enough power that Taiwan has no other choice than to come back. Chinese foreign policy is different than US foreign policy.
Poker has no notion of aji keshi and a lot of people in the west don’t use a concept like aji keshi in strategic conflicts. I’m not even aware of a good word in the Oxford dictionary for aji keshi.
I don’t know about strategy behind Diplomacy but given that I have never read a book about Diplomacy strategy that explains why I don’t know. If you have never learned Go then given the knowledge of Go rules you wouldn’t come up with the concept of aji keshi yourself and see that it’s important in Go.
If I have a high stakes negotiation then I can usually safely assume that the other person is stressed because he cares about the outcome of the negotiation. If he is on the other hand stressed because his wife send him an SMS right before the negotiation that she wants to divorce and he spends all the time thinking about the SMS instead of focusing on the negotiation then he becomes hard to read. Especially if you don’t know about the SMS that person get’s very hard to model.
If I do hypnosis and say a wrong word then the tension in the person I’m hypnotising rises. I perceive that change in body tonus and can change course. That helpful as long as the person doesn’t get suddenly tense for reasons that have nothing to do with my interaction with him.
As long as I’m having a decent mental model of the other person and perceive body language I can sometimes do well as far as mind reading goes. On the other hand I lose that if there are stress factors I can’t decently model.