Storyline: Winning in life and sports is just like a chess game. It’s a matter of having a strategy and executing a plan.
There are strategy games that you can use in everyday life, games like Blackjack and Poker. But the best of the bunch, and the one I’ll write about here, is chess.
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One of the universal things everyone needs is money. Let’s talk about strategy you learn on the chess board and apply it to everyday life.
IN CHESS THERE’S A GOAL AND IN LIFE THERE’S A GOAL: We all have different paths and different goals we take in the game called life. Maybe we want to make this or that amount of money in a year. Perhaps we want to get married and have kids by this or that age. Or maybe we want to coach a team and win a championship.
In chess you have your pieces on the board. You have pawns, rook, knight, bishop, queen, and king. The whole goal of the game is to capture the king. However, in order to do that, you need to move your pieces by figuring out a strategy and plan to capture the king and win.
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HOW TO USE GAMING STRATEGY IN EVERYDAY LIFE: There’s strategy in every type of job. For example, let’s say you have an entry-level job as a sales person, but you want to be vice president of sales within two years. That’s very much like being a player at the chess board, ready to move your pieces. Perhaps you have to call clients and pitch them on a new product. You’ll also need to make a least fifty ‘cold calls’ a day. What you’re really doing is moving your pawns and developing a strategy to get to your goal.
Within a few months you have the highest sales rate in the office. Now you’re free to move your rook and bishop to go after the king. You continue to do well. After a year you get that promotion you wanted. You captured the king!
In sports, as in life, there are goals.
Go out and succeed!
If you play chess, you do not need to even think of using a chess player mind in everyday life, you just do it. Like in life, the game’s possibilities and the number of combinations are basically limitless. The development of the brain’s left hemisphere which is responsible for logical thinking takes place through counting combinations, whereas the development of the right hemisphere, which is responsible for creative thinking, occurs by arranging new plans and finding new non-standard moves in different positions. I can recommend a book (net-boss.org/chess-puzzles-for-kids-by-maksim-aksanov) with bunch of great exercises, which will help to start this adventure.
This is a very interesting and unique article. I say that, because it is very specific and I never thought of that comparison. I never played chess. But, apparently I have and it’s called “Life!” For the type of article this is, makes it completely different from a lot of the articles you right about sports. I love this one Matthew Paris…great job!