Always go back to basic and great go books

In karate especially Shitoryu karate the emphasis is on kihon, the basic moves. When practicing the emphasis is to make the basic moves to perfection instead of fancy technics, most of the time is on practicing the basic moves.

A poker player said a sales person told him there is no secret short cut to sales, just keep on making lots of calls.

So in go or wei qi, or poker, or pracle succeeding at life always go back to basic make sure your foundation is solid. Because advanceness is just a combination of basics.

In wei qi for example, to really enjoy wei qi, you only need to read this basic books

Get strong at opening by Richard Bozulich
Get strong at attachking by Richard Bozulich
Get strong at invading
Get strong at tesuji

When i study wei qi i read lots of basic books but i only scan through them and went on to advance books then for a long time a lot of years my wei qi is still weak because i couldnt get the basics right. only recently i read the above books my go improved a great deal. Also watch some go postgame analysis in youtube by all those 5 dan pro korean woman. Go board game is a very good friend to be with you during hard times, better than a wife or girlfriend.

Same thing with Oracle and karate, get your basics right, always go back to basic

Here is also going back to basics in Weiqi
http://francisseanryan.blogspot.com/2009/08/here-is-another-example-of-kihonbasics.html