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Exceptional Starts Lead to Exceptional Results

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When I was learning the deep strategy game of Go, my mentor told me, “From a good opening, you can lose. However, from a bad opening, you cannot win.”

At the time, I thought her little gem of wisdom was just too negative. We can have a great opening and still lose. Okay, that is true. I don’t like it, but it is true. I struggled, however, with the thought that “from a bad opening, you cannot win.”

On examination of many situations, I found that she was, overall, right. Yes, against a poor player, I ...

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