How to Be a Successful Chess Player

I'm hoping maybe three four times a year. I can get out to a big event and then hopefully in Los Angeles, we'll start kicking up the smaller events soon. It's hard to do that once a month or whatever That would be really hard for me. But it's a lot harder to go away for say a weekend. Mm. And you're having to have this negotiation with the other people in your life and like what you're leaving for three days to play chess Isn't that kind of selfish? You're like, well I guess yes, but that's you know, that's what I'm doing with my life and I really want to do this Uh, yeah