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Go Spotting: NPR reporter on why you should “lose your first 50 games quickly”

In a December 29 NPR story about differences between the way that the West and the East think about the process of intellectual struggle, Planet Money correspondent Robert Smith (r) notes that “I learned how to play the board game Go…And one of the things they tell you right at the beginning is to lose your first 50 games quickly; that the whole notion of learning this game is to start by losing a lot. And it reminds me a little bit of this, this theory that it's going to happen, so you need to embrace that. That is the important part.” Click here to hear the story: NPR Reporters On The Stories That Stuck In 2012; the story -- by science correspondent Alix Spiegel -- begins at 1:05 and Smith’s comment is at 2:45. Thanks to Eric Osman for passing this along.