Paramount!
"The cousin of knowledge is
experience. And experience can be a
great teacher." - O.G.K.
It's true - experience can be a great
teacher and is usually accompanied
by confidence. Confidence and
experience go hand in hand, because
you will ususally gain confidence
through or by your experiences. So in
life, if you train to be an engineer,
and practice and learn, you will gain
experience. And that experience can
give you confidence. Learning,
training, and practicing can all be
vehicles by which you can get more
experience and confidence too!
Without experience and knowledge,
it would be hard to get any type of
success. If you read engineering
books all day, but don't practice and
experiment with it, you usually won't
gain any significant measure of
confidence - probably. However if
you learn, do, and practice these
things, you can gain significant
experience and confidence - which
can help you succeed! So, gain
experience buddy!
In chess, you have to get experience,
or playing time, in order to succeed,
because that may teach you some
things as regards to the game of
chess. In other words, the more you
play, the higher your probability of
learning something. While not always
the case, you can usually learn the
nuances and the ins and outs of the
game through repetition, practice,
learning, and experience. So get at it -
don't be afraid to fail because even
the international grandmasters have
lost a few games in their heyday! So
get at it buddy!
Remember, experience is like a key,
opening a door to the victory. So
learn, read, practice, play, and learn -
those are critical factors to success!