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The idea that a losing horse player is just one book away from becoming a winning horse player is absurb.
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I could not agree more.
Becoming a winning player is not, generally, the result of adding a single idea. It is usually the result of several, small, incremental improvements.
The idea that a player is just one
concept away from
improvement is very believable.
To me, the logical progression is to learn what everybody is assumed to
know. From there, the process is to either prove that some of the things that are so well known are either not true or more true (forget Aristotle here) than the public thinks.
The final idea or two that usually brings it together is adding something that is not so well-known to the equation. The more obscure and counter-revolutionary the idea, the better. Of course, it must be a
good idea to begin with.
