The Mahjong Advice Nobody Wants to Hear

Kindly meant, and the truest thing I know about getting good.

I can give you tips all day. Read the discards, stay flexible, watch the exposures. People love those, and they help.

But the advice that actually moves you forward is the advice nobody wants to hear, because it asks something of you. Here it is, kindly meant.

You have to be willing to be bad at first

There is no version of learning this game where you skip the part where you are not good yet. Every single confident player went through it. The women who never get good are almost always the ones who were not willing to be visibly new for a little while. Being a beginner in front of people is the price of admission, and it is worth paying.