3 Surprising Lessons That Chess Can Teach You About Life

We have to accept the fact that we are not all the same.

Each one of us has our own skills, our own strengths, and our own preferences in life. This is an exact mirror of the situation on the magical white and black chess board.

In this story, I will explain how we can use the ancient secrets of chess to improve our vision and mindset in our life and maybe learn a trick or two for our next game, whether it is chess or not.

Almost everyone knows, even those who don’t play chess, that the pawn is the weakest piece in chess and there are eight of them. However, what is not so obvious is that even this humble piece can win you the game if played right. Some of these pawns you can easily sacrifice and some you defend as if they were the queen, depending on the situation. So the lesson here is: if you have limited skills and strengths, always position yourself in situations that make you indispensable. This reminds me of Donna, the charming secretary of Harvey Specter in the hit series Suits. While the job itself is not that demanding or fascinating, she managed to make herself indispensable to one of the greatest lawyers. How did she do that? She found a way to push her services a little further and to come up with simple but unique ways that people would admire about her.