That’s a tricky one. And it is not one of those things you can hide behind a pillow in your living room and forget about. Or rather: the effect will be the same. What is hidden will eventually surface and possibly start smelling before you remember where you put it.
There was a time when I didn’t deal with failure, nor with success. Instead I swung from one to the other, forgetting what had passed, not worrying about what would come next. It worked for quite a while, but in the end it didn’t. It got harder and harder to get out of the periods when I expected to fail and the only antidote I could come up with was to let these periods “run their course”. In retrospect I have found this last idea to be especially destructive, because it places the solution in a place where you cannot reach it.
What a horrible game (for me)! In retrospect I can see two patterns that I have since worked on: 1. I calculated too badly when I got a “second chance” (the same happened in my game in round 3) and 2. I was too tired during the second half of the games. The remedy – I realized – must surely be to work on my physique. And, so I have. Next week I’m playing Deltalift Open in Tylösand and I hope to have more energy for the latter part of the games.