Some chess players hinder their ability to improve by being too concerned about losing or worry too much about their chess ratings. Worrying too much about your win and loss record or your chess ratings are going to hold you back from learning how to better play the game. Ratings and records are just numbers. The good news is that you will lose some games of chess. You will probably lose many games of chess before you start to dramatically improve.
You improve your chess game when you add something positive or subtract something negative. Do not take losing personally; take the view that any chess game where you do not learn something is the real bad game, not your losses. When you lose at a game of chess it is likely that you have done something identifiably wrong during the game, so work on learning from that mistake so that you do not repeat the same mistake in the future.
A chess player who worries too much about losing often seeks out weaker chess opponents who will not force the player to learn from his or her mistakes. It may be gratifying to rack up a number of wins, but the lessons that you learn are not there. While playing almost exclusively against players who are rated above you can be demoralizing and hinder your chances to learn good technique, a mixture of about sixty-five to seventy five percent of games played against higher rated players than you and the rest equally rated or less seems to be about right for a positive learning curve. Do not tempt yourself into going for the easy wins; you will not improve your game very much at all.