Chess Lessons as Life Lessons

What is something valuable that you learned from chess that you apply to your everyday life?

Nothing. Chess does not work as an analogy for life and is horrible as life metaphor. I could go list a lot of reason how nothing about chess resembles life but it should be self evident to anybody who thinks about it.

Interesting take. I respect it.

I’ve found a lot of benefits personally.

Examples-

Patience: Too often we see a good move and want to play it immediately. Instead, you can give yourself some time to look for even better options.

Control the center: In life, you must occupy your own center. If you take care of your important life squares like love, health, and finances, you’ll set yourself up for success.

I use this as a lawyer by focusing on key contract terms that my client needs (the center) then I can sacrifice non-central items to improve my position.

Thinking like this helps me to be more strategic day to day, not just while playing chess.

I’m asking because I’m teaching my son to play and I want to include deeper life lessons.

Learn from own mistakes and mistakes of others. If we don't analyze our games and games of Masters, we REPEAT our mistakes. Similar to Life, analyze our failure and the failure of others. It's more important to analyze Life. We can afford only a few mistakes unlike in chess we can afford Hundreds of mistakes (many games)

Plan out your future: you don't want to be that little kid who plays Na4 thinking he's so special for forking the bishop and the queen. Na4 never works. And neither does walking into your future blindly.