Løvstuhagen (@Lovstuhagen)

Great insight: "The vast majority of people are higher rated not because they watched the right video or signed up for the proper online training course but because they, for whatever reason, are interested in some aspects of chess more than you, be it rook endgames, isolated queen pawns, the history of chess theory, hyper-modernism, the postwar soviet chess revolution, and so forth. For you some of these things might be things to study for improvement's sake, but to a stronger player they were probably just interesting subjects in their own right because, realistically, for us nonprofessional chess players there is no studying - there is just whatever we happen to find entertaining enough to explore for its own sake. This is not a bad thing - unless you are a professional chess player you don't need to know or care about every aspect of chess. Everyone has their own level of interest in things and a finite amount of time to spend on them." https://lichess.org/@/ZugAddict/blog/are-you-rated-1600-good/NXws0m8k